“Normal conversation is taking place around this issue,” PM Nikol Pashinyan told Kommersant newspaper in an interview. “This is a conversation between strategic allies, and it will lead to concrete results. I am sure of this. Now in Armenia we have a very good dynamics in economy. This issue is important for us not only in terms of the gas price, this is also a matter of economic development. I believe that for our strategic ally Russia it is important for the gas price to be such in order not to disrupt Armenia’s economic development dynamics,” Pashinyan said.
Asked what price will not disrupt it, the PM said that a matter of calculations. “We are currently dealing with these calculations. The decision will be an allied one. It can’t be another way, and it shouldn’t,” he said.
Asked when everything can be agreed upon, the Armenian PM stressed that during the past year the domestic price of gas hasn’t changed.
To the observation that the acquisition price grew, the Armenian PM said: “This is another matter. It doesn’t have much significance from the perspective of domestic consumers in Armenia. For us it is important that Gazprom Armenia’s affairs be normal. And this I believe is also an economic matter. We must develop the kind of formul...
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