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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Sunday touched upon the results of his recent trip to Russia at a business forum titled “My Step for Tavush” in Ijevan, noting that he was aware that a significant part of those present at the meeting had arrived from the Russia.

“I had very important and very productive talks with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. As a result of this visit and negotiations, we can state that the Armenian-Russian relations have reached a new - I would say - an unprecedented high level, there is an atmosphere of mutual trust between me and the Russian president,” he stressed, according to the PM’s official website.  

“Accordingly, we can state that there is an atmosphere of mutual trust between the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation that will create more favorable conditions for development of economic ties between our countries. It will become another incentive for our compatriots in Russia to continue operating not only in Russia, but also Armenia,” Pashinyan added.

The PM thanked the businessmen for their readiness to cooperate and stressed that “the people of Armenia, the Armenian government counts on you.”

“Of course, we are ready to do everything possible to make you succeed in Armenia, including those who are already engaged and those who are going to come to Armenia.

“We have two messages to the business class in Armenia: we say get richer and enrich the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian people, that is, make yourself rich, if you are rich, become wealthier and enrich Armenia and its people. We say get stronger and empower others, that is, strengthen economically, spiritually, in the sense of national self-consciousness, identity and empower our homeland, our people, our state,” he said.

Touching upon the vision of Armenia’s economic development, Pashinyan underlined: “A policy of poverty incentives has been pursued for years in Armenia. We believe that the time has come to switch over to job encouragement because work is the only way to deal with the existing problems. The government is introducing a policy of job incentives so that the working man, who creates a product, be held in the highest esteem in Armenia.”