Russian Foreign Ministry issues press release entitled "About  situation around Armenia"

ArmInfo.<We have recently recorded the emergence of certain doubts in official circles and the political  elite of the Republic of Armenia about the advisability of allied ties within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and with Russia on a bilateral basis, as well as about the feasibility of a set of trilateral agreements between Moscow, Yerevan and Baku 2020 -2022 about ways to normalize Armenian-Azerbaijani relations,"  noted in   today's press release of the Russian Foreign Ministry entitled "About the situation around Armenia".

It notes that <against this background, the leadership of Armenia has  taken a series of unfriendly steps in recent days, including the  launch of the process of ratification of the Rome Statute of the ICC,  the trip to Kiev of the Prime Minister's wife A.V. Hakobyan with the  transfer of humanitarian aid to the Kiev "Nazi regime", conducting  military exercises with the participation of the U.S. in the  territory of Armenia.

In this regard, the Ambassador of Armenia in Moscow V. Harutyunyan,  was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, to whom a harsh  representation was made. In addition, a note of protest was  submitted, which indicated the unacceptability of the offensive  statements of  Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of  Armenia A.  Simonyan on September 6 addressed to official  representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director  of the Information and Press Department  M.  Zakharova and the  Russian foreign policy department as a whole.  Separately, concerns  were raised about the detention of blogger M. Badalyan and Sputnik  Armenia radio columnist A.  Gevorgyan in Armenia on September 7.

At the same time, Moscow firmly believes that Russia and Armenia  remain allies, and all agreements on the development and  strengthening of partnerships will be fully implemented for the  benefit of the peoples of our two countries. This, among other  things, concerns the organization of exercises within the CSTO and  the subsequent sending of an observation mission of the Organization  to the republic in order to facilitate a settlement between Armenia  and Azerbaijan.

The Russian side will continue to make all necessary efforts for  these purposes," the press release reads.