ArmInfo. When Armenia started negotiations with the European Union on signing the Association Agreement, Russian partners - allies knew about it, European partners knew that Yerevan is also negotiating with the Eurasian Economic Union on membership in the Customs Union of that time, said the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan at the Munich Security Conference , answering the question of the chairman of "Eurasia" grup Jan Bremer.
"We saw this as possible, and when the" i-u "principle changed to the" or-or "principle, we could not sign such an agreement, that is, we did not refuse to sign the Association Agreement, and the EU did not want to sign an agreement with us We even offered to sign one part of the agreement - the political part, if it is possible, but our European partners said no, but only a week later with Ukraine such an agreement was signed, we understand very well the possibilities of Armenia and the possibilities of Ukraine, the role of Armenia and ro but it was strange to us, however, so we did not refuse to sign such an agreement and thank God that a little later after that the European Union took a decision and this decision was approved at the Riga Summit - it was a decision on a differentiated approach "And we managed to sign a document with the European Union on this differentiated approach," the Armenian leader explained, again stressing that Yerevan did not conduct secret negotiations with anyone, did not make decisions under the pressure of anyone.
"Our historical experience shows that attempts to extract temporary benefits from contradictions lead to great tragedies.We went through such a tragedy and would not want the tragedies to repeat," the Armenian leader summed up.