Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan responded to the Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko.

Axar.az reports that the Armenian press published information about this.

"The topic of the conference was "Russia's illegal occupation of Ukraine", I did not use the word "illegal" in order not to accidentally offend them, but there is nothing in my speech that contradicts international law, their statements, the documents they signed. Belarus and Turkiye also do not recognize the inclusion of new territories in Russia. At the same time, the President of Turkiye emphasizes that he does not recognize Crimea. I want to understand: their power reaches only us? The problem is that they do not understand that Armenia should act as an independent state. According to them, we still remain a province," he said.