“Hraparak” daily writes:
Nikol Pashinyan’s visit to Moscow, according to official sources, was planned at the instigation of the West, from where Pashinyan is forced to resolve the issue of the concession of the South Caucasian railway a day earlier.
This is due to the fact that the meeting was initiated at Pashinyan’s request, which he admitted in the last briefing. After Russia reacted harshly to the intentions of the RA authorities regarding the railway, Transport Minister Andrey Nikitin announced that Russia is not negotiating to hand over the railway management concession of Armenia to Kazakhstan.
Let’s remind that Pashinyan announced on March 26 that Yerevan is not against the option of handing over the Armenian railway to Kazakh concession management, if an agreement is reached with Russia on this issue. It is not known yet what negotiations took place between Putin and Pashinyan.
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