MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia values its close relations with Armenia and that the United States, which is set to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Armenia, had never played a stabilising role in the region.
An ex-Soviet republic, Armenia has traditionally served as a key ally of Russia but in recent years the country has forged closer ties with the West.
“The United States, of course, is trying in every possible way to pull new countries into its wake,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a daily briefing.
Washington, he added, “has never played a particularly stabilising role in the South Caucasus – one could even say the opposite”.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken are set to sign a strategic partnership agreement in Washington later on Tuesday. The State Department and the Armenian ministry did not release further…
