ArmInfo. After agreeing on the proposal made by Yerevan in the autumn of 2013 to sign an association agreement without an economic component, the former European Commission did not go on, in fact the European partners agreed with Armenia's "i-and-i" policy by giving up "or-or." Mihran Hakobyan, a deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia from the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, expressed such opinion to ArmInfo.
November 24, 2017 at the Brussels summit of the "Eastern Partnership" Armenia plans to sign a partnership document on the partnership with the EU, which was initialed on March 21 - the Agreement on Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership. The relevant talks were initiated by the Council of Foreign Ministers of the EU on October 12, 2015 in Luxembourg.
"In 2013, the Europeans agreed on the possibility of signing the Association Agreement with Armenia by refusing Yerevan to join the Customs Union, which was a reaction to the proposal of our leadership, excluding a problematic economy, to sign only the political part. I think this was the result of Brussels's inefficiency in applying uniform standards to the most different countries of the Eastern Partnership. "It is clear that countries that are in a specific situation also participate in the" EaP ", which should be taken into account when making decisions", - underlined. he croaked.
The parliamentarian believes that in the document agreed upon at the highest level, both the interests of the European Union and Armenia are reflected. In this light, there are no risks for the parties in the document, according to his estimates. On the other hand, in the course of the entire negotiation process for the preparation of the agreement with the EU, Yerevan, in his opinion, took into account membership in the EEA, CSTO and, of course, military-political relations with Russia.
"In this light, the agreement with the EU to the Armenian-Russian strategic alliance, our participation in the EEMP and the CSTO does not contradict." In my opinion, the understanding of our partners in the agreement is quite positive and our partners are aware of the essence and spirit of the agreement, without any objections, "the Republican summed up