Russia says values "brotherly", allied relations with Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has said Moscow values long-term "fraternal" and allied relations with Armenia, RIA Novosti reports.

Mishustin passed along Russian President Vladimir Putin's greetings and well-wishes to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during a meeting in Russia on Thursday, April 29.

He noted that Moscow values "brotherly relations" with Yerevan, which he said "are of a long-term allied and strategic nature". According to him, the statements of the leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan, adopted after the end of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, have opened up "great opportunities" for cooperation.

"This includes, first of all, the unblocking of all economic and transport communications, the creation of new infrastructural routes. All this will create conditions for the sustainable development of the Transcaucasian region," Mishustin said.

Pashinyan is Russia to participate in a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.