Russia, Armenia move past stage of mistrust, Lavrov convinced

Russia and Armenia have moved beyond a stage marked by mutual distrust and a lack of openness, with Moscow and Yerevan now choosing to base their relations on real facts, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the Russian-Armenian University, Report informs via TASS.

"In January, [the Armenian Foreign Minister] Ararat Samvelovich Mirzoyan was in Moscow, and now I have arrived here. I am very grateful for the very warm reception I received. Both our talks at the Foreign Ministry today and the meeting with the President [of Armenia Vaagn Khachaturyan] confirmed that we are moving past the stage marked by a kind of mutual distrust and mutual resentment, coming to the realization that this is completely meaningless, because there are objective facts, and now we will proceed from them. The main conclusion of today's visit is that we have crossed the line where we lacked sincerity and mutual trust," Lavrov said, referring to the current and future relations between Moscow and Yerevan.