Russian Federation expects Pashinyan to clarify diversification of security relations

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As Dmitry Peskov, press secretary to the Russian president, noted, Moscow is not inclined to view The Wall Street Journal, in which the statement was published, as a primary source.
Moscow, in conjunction with Yerevan, expects to receive information on what Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan meant when he spoke of the need for "diversify relations in the security sphere". Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Earlier, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Pashinyan said that the events in Nagorno-Karabakh "basically brought" Yerevan to decide on the need "diversify relations in the security sphere".

"In this case, we are not inclined to see The Wall Street Journal as a primary source, so we still need to understand exactly what Mr Pashinyan was talking about," Peskov noted. friends, we expect to receive all the information on this account. And of course it is not good for Russia and Armenia to communicate through newspapers, especially the Wall Street Journal. Therefore, we continue to talk, dialogue with our Armenian friends, and we will continue to do so, we have a very large agenda."

The Kremlin representative also stressed that the Russian side continues its efforts to "try to help Baku and Yerevan finally reach a peace agreement". "This is necessary to stabilize the situation in the region and to achieve a more positive, creative standard of living throughout the region," summarised the President's press secretary.

In the WSJ interview, Pashinyan also noted that Yerevan is not raising the issue of the withdrawal of the Russian military base from Armenia and is trying "to understand the reason for this behavior of the Russian Federation and OSCE in the framework of working negotiations and other formats." The Armenian prime minister added that the republic remains in the CSTO, "because the parties are now in the stage of discussing issues of understanding positions" and they don't want "to make a mistake in mutual understanding".

(TASS/USA)