If it is in our interests to go to St. Petersburg, then we will go. This is not a step backwards. Alain Simonyan

NA Speaker Alen Simonyan does not consider Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's departure to St. Petersburg as a step backwards. "You know that we are in the same economic union with Russia, our economy is experiencing great growth, and we cannot miss the opportunity to assume the presidency of the organization we are in. Armenia needs that," he said. he said today, December 26, in a conversation with journalists in the National Park, News.am reports.

"Armenia has never made an official statement that it is making a U-turn. You know that I also did not go to the CSTO meeting on December 19, we have serious reservations about the CSTO activities that still exist today. I have said what they are due to and how long they will continue. A step back, a step forward, please don't talk too much about it and say that they have left, nor rush to say that they have returned. Armenia will continue to pursue its interests, if they are in the meeting that will take place in St. Petersburg, we will go there. If not, we will not go, as has happened several times this year," said the Speaker of the National Assembly.