Russian Foreign Ministry hands note of protest to Armenian envoy Over Yerevan's unfriendly steps

Armenian Ambassador to Moscow Vagharshak Harutyunyan has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. This is stated on the website of the ministry.

The Russian Foreign Ministry drew attention to the emergence of doubts in the official circles and political elite of Armenia about the expediency of an alliance within the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) and with Russia on a bilateral basis, as well as the feasibility of a number of trilateral agreements between Moscow, Yerevan and Baku on ways to normalise Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, Caliber.Az reports per the ministry's website.

The ministry also recalled that the Armenian authorities have taken a series of unfriendly steps - launching the process of ratification of the Rome Statute of the ICC, the trip of the wife of Prime Minister A.V. Hakobyan to Kyiv with the transfer of humanitarian aid, as well as the holding of military exercises in the territory of the country with the participation of the United States.

"In this connection, Armenian Ambassador to Moscow B.V. Harutyunyan was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry and a tough notion was made to him," the Foreign Ministry said.

It also said that Harutyunyan was handed a protest note stating the unacceptability of insulting statements by the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova and the Russian Foreign Ministry as a whole.

It is noted that Moscow assumes that Russia and Armenia remain allies.