The head of Russia’s foreign spy agency met with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan this week, just three days after CIA Director William Burns visited Yerevan for talks, the Armenian government said.
Sergei Naryskin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), met with Pashinyan on July 18 in the same room where Pashinyan had received Burns on July 15, according to photos of the two meetings released by the Armenian government.
Armenian announcements of the two meetings are similar: they discussed bilateral relations and also international and regional security issues, including the South Caucasus, the Armenian government said.
According to the Russian state news agency Sputnik, Naryskin said: “My visit to Yerevan is in no way connected with the arrival of my American colleague. But I do not rule out that his visit, on the contrary, is connected with mine.”
Armenia is a Russian ally, and Moscow has peacekeeping troops in Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-controlled region of Azerbaijan where Armenian forces were pushed back in a devastating war against Azerbaijan in 2020. In recent months, Armenia has talks aimed at normalizing relations with neighboring NATO member Turkey.
Source: AMPE
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