If we talk about the negotiations of the heads of the foreign political departments of Russia and Armenia, which took place recently in Moscow, relevant comments were made at the press conference, including on these issues. Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said this at a briefing today, January 23.
This is how he responded to the journalist's following question. "The Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, Alen Simonyan, announced that Yerevan does not plan to withdraw from the EAEU, although the government of the republic has at the same time approved the bill to join the European Union. At the same time, we all know that Moscow has repeated several times before that it is impossible to be a member of two associations at the same time. And recently there were talks between the heads of foreign ministries of our countries, respectively Sergey Lavrov and Ararat Mirzoyan. I wonder if the Armenian side made any comments or explained the desire to sit on two chairs at the same time during these negotiations. And what is the opinion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia on this issue?
"And accordingly, a message about the results was also published. If that's not enough, I'll say it again, it's all there. The conversation was sincere, but not everything was a camera. A lot was behind closed doors. He was behind closed doors for about three hours.
Therefore, from here I can say that there really was a sincere conversation about many points of special relevance for the parties," said Zakharova.
"Can you clarify, in these three hours, is there any hope of a positive solution to the issue?" the journalist asked him.
"Never lose it," replied the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
