By Prensa Latina
Moscow : Russian President Vladimir Putin exhorted to preserve and increase the links with Armenia in the future, as he received Armenian president-elect Serzh Sarkisian in the Kremlin Monday.
“I congratulate you for the electoral results, because I know how complicated political processes in Armenia are,” Putin told his guest during the dialogue with Sarkisian.
Sarkisian will be invested on April 9 and was also received by Dimitri Medvedev, winner of the presidential elections in Russia, who will be invested on May 7.
Putin has stated more than once that the bilateral relations have absence of sharp problems between them.
Erevan is the most important allied of Russia in the Independent States Community, after signing an agreement on acquisition of gas at a fixed price of 110 dollars for each 1,000 cubic meters until 2009.
In exchange, Erevan gave the property of important industrial plants and scientific investigation institutes to Russian enterprises and gave total mastering of gas pipeline in construction from Iran to Russian gas enterprise GAZPROM.
From the geo-political point of view Armenia counts on the support of Russia in its historical difference with Turkey and the territorial conflict with Azerbaidzhan because of Nagorny Karabaj.
Recently Russia supported Armenia with its vote at the United Nations during the debate for a resolution project on the topic, presented by Azerbaidzhan.
Russian troops withdrawing from Georgia, for an agreement with Tbilisi were relocated in Armenia as guarantors of the borders.