On February 2, on the sidelines of the session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council held in Almaty, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a meeting with Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, the Press Office of the Armenian Prime Minister reported.

In his speech, the Prime Minister of Russia stated: "Russia is Armenia's leading foreign trade partner and the main investor in the economy. Let me give examples. From January-November last year, mutual trade increased by 77% compared to 2021. It exceeded 4.1 billion USD, a record-high indicator in our mutual trade today."

"We consistently advocate unblocking economic and transport communications in Transcaucasia. We consider it important to ensure the implementation of the agreements reached by Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan leaders. The creation of new transport infrastructure routes is in the interests of all states of the region," he added.

In turn, Prime Minister Pashinyan noted, "Everything is good with us in the field of economy, you know that the Russian Federation is the key partner of Armenia in the field of security and, unfortunately, the situation is not so good with us in the field of security. You know that Lachin Corridor has been blocked for more than a month, and according to the trilateral declaration of the President of the Russian Federation, the President of Azerbaijan, and the Prime Minister of Armenia, it should be under the control of Russian peacekeepers. Now it turns out that the Lachin Corridor is not under the control of Russian peacekeepers, which creates specific problems."

"During the CSTO Yerevan summit, it seemed to us that we had reached concrete agreements regarding opening regional economic and transport infrastructures. Vladimir Vladimirovich had arrived with specific proposals, and we agreed on aspects of those agreed options for opening up regional infrastructure, but unfortunately, these agreements could not be implemented later due to the unconstructive and counterproductive position of the Republic of Azerbaijan," the Armenian leader added.