Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will not participate in the inauguration ceremony of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Armenia's Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan stated this in a conversation with journalists in the Parliament.
No, Alen Simonyan said in response to the journalist's question
When asked whether he answered the letter of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and the hint of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, about not responding to the letter, Simonyan said that he did not receive any letter.
"Ask the one to whom it was sent. If I'm not mistaken, my colleague sent the answer a long time ago. Perhaps it was convenient for Mrs. Zakharova at that moment. It's clear, isn't it, that a staged question-and-answer session takes place all the time," said Simonyan.
Simonyan answered the journalists' claims about who the letter was addressed to: Sargis Khandanyan (Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly - ed.).
Simonyan refused to answer the question whether he is aware of the content of the response letter or not.
"What I said, I said correctly and appropriately. I didn't say anything new and I am ready to say the same things today and repeat them all the time," said the Speaker of the National Assembly.
When asked by one of the journalists, from whom Simonyan made the statements, he emphasized that he is one of the people elected with the most direct mandate.
"If the authorities in some countries do not represent their people, that is their problem and their ideas are such. In the Republic of Armenia, the Government and the opposition represent the people," concluded the Speaker of the National Assembly.
