DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN IRAN AND RUSSIA ADVANTAGEOUS TO ARMENIA

The development of relations between Iran and Russia is advantageous to Armenia, Armenian Ambassador to Iran Gegham Gharibjanian told journalists yesterday. In his words, a demarche against the tripartite agreement signed in Moscow May 24 by Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan on the building of the Kazvin-Resht-Astara railway line is out of question. The Ambassador did not agree either with a journalist’s opinion that the document was a move Russia made in response to the agreement on building of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline signed earlier. He noted that the Iranian-Armenian gas pipeline was of strategic importance not only for those two countries, but also the stability and development of the whole region.