“Armenia’s authorities now face a final choice: to stay in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) or to test their chances in the European Union (EU). They appear to expect to hear the answer to this question from Pashinyan at the EAEU summit in December.”.
Globalinfo.az reports that Armenian expert Sevak Hakobyan said this.
He stressed that although 1 year and 7 months have passed since Armenia adopted the law on launching the process of EU membership, hesitations over the direction of real integration continue:
“It is highly doubtful that Armenia will join the EU, but it is a fact that we are losing hundreds of millions of dollars because of the restrictions imposed on Russian exports. According to the latest report, if Armenia is expelled from the EAEU or its membership is frozen, the country faces serious economic trials. So what does the government think? There is no answer. They say Azerbaijan is the guarantor of our security, the Russian military base in Gyumri does us no good, we have left the CSTO. In fact, with this policy Armenia has no chance of becoming an EU member, but a very high chance of becoming a member of Western Azerbaijan.”
Safura Bannayeva
Globalinfo.az
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