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Russian PM to visit Yerevan on April 7 and Baku on April 8

MOSCOW, Aoril 5. /TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will pay an official visit to Yerevan on April 7, as was originally agreed. On the following day, April 8, he will visit Azerbaijan, Medvedev’s press secretary Natalia Timakova said on Tuesday.

A meeting of the prime ministers of the Eurasian Economic Union member countries will be be held in Moscow, instead of Yerevan, she said.

"Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will soon have a telephone conversation with his Armenian counterpart Orik Abraamyan. Taking into account the current situation, Medvedev is expected to inform his counterpart about Russia’s readiness to accept the initiative of Kazakhstan, which is the current president in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), to change the venue of the EAEU summit next week to Moscow," she said.

"Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s official visit to Yerevan will take place as was originally agreed - on April 7. After this visit, he will go to Azerbaijan on April 8," Timakova added.