Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the sidelines of the sitting of the EAEU Supreme Eurasian Council in Yerevan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinayn welcomed Vladimir Putin’s visit to Armenia and said it’s a good opportunity to discuss issues on common agenda.
“I think that today really significant events took place within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union: we signed an agreement with Singapore, an agreement on temporary free trade with Iran came into force. And to be honest, I’m very glad that this is all happening in Yerevan,” PM Pashinyan said.
“This is a very memorable fact for the chairmanship of Armenia in the Eurasian Economic Union,” he said, voicing hope that Armenia will still be able to register more results in EAEU.
Speaking about bilateral relations, Nikol Pashinyan said “Russia is our strategic partner and we hope to strengthen this partnership further.”
Vladimir Putin, in turn, reiterated the strategic nature of Armenian-Russian relations.
“They [relations] have been reinforced not only by the events of the past years and decades, but also by centuries-long interaction between our nations,” he said.
Putin congratulated Pashinyan on the results of the EAEU summit in Yerevan. “
“The results are really good from the point of view of developing relations with our partners from third countries. And which is no less important, and perhaps even more important for us, there is not a single failure – on the contrary, all agreements have been reached within the organization between the countries participating in this union,” the Russian President said.
He hailed Nikol Pashinyan’s efforts in the productive work.
