Putin: Russian-Armenian relations entering new level
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“Despite
the hard times in the political process in Armenia, Armenian-Russian
are going to develop at a new level,” president of Russia Vladimir
Putin said at a meeting with Armenia's president-elect Serzh
Sargsyan in Kremlin.
Vladimir
Putin said at the meeting that he is informed of complicated internal
political processes in Armenia. Nevertheless, he observed, Russia
hopes that, regardless the course of internal political events in
Armenia, “everything that has been created in the preceding years,
is preserved and developed in the future.”
Sargsyan,
for his part, said that Armenia needs to further develop relations
with Russia. “We have always appreciated your help to Armenia,”
Sargsyan noticed.
To
remind, Sargsyan has already met on March 24 with Russia's
president-elect Dmitry
Medvedev. He is also expected to meet with prime minister Viktor
Zubkov and Moscow mayor Yuri
Luzhkov.