Kremlin has not yet confirmed information about Putin's planned visit to Armenia

YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov has not yet confirmed media reports, which said that President Vladimir Putin was to pay a state visit to Armenia later this year.

"I don't have any confirmation about that. So far, our side has not officially talked about it," the Kremlin spokesman said at a press briefing today in response to a question from journalists whether the visit was really being prepared, TASS reported.

Ushakov reminded that Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have "very active contacts. This year they have already had several personal meetings and regular phone conversations.

"In my opinion, it is Mr. Pashinyan with home Putin talked to on the phone the most this and last years," Ushakov said.

Earlier, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said that the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Russia Ararat Mirzoyan and Sergey Lavrov at a meeting in Moscow on September 6 discussed the organization of the state visit by Russian President to Armenia and the upcoming session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Yerevan. --0--