ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sees no contradictions in strengthening integration within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union and the parallel development of closer relations with the European Union. Pashinyan said this in an exclusive interview with DW.
"We are not trying to sit on two chairs, we don't have such a goal," the Armenian Prime Minister stated. "The European Union supports our democratic reforms and does not set us the task to make a choice between the Eurasian Economic Union and the EU." Relations with both of these international structures, he said, are absolutely transparent. "We are not going to develop our relations with one partner to the detriment of another partner," Pashinyan said in an interview with DW.
Answering the question why the Kremlin, which, according to Pashinyan himself, does not like revolutions, calmly reacted to the change of power in Yerevan, the interlocutor of DW categorically refused to put the events in Armenia on a par with the so-called "color revolutions". "There was no geopolitical context in our revolution," he said, "and there was no foreign force that would participate and be involved in our internal political process." At the same time, Pashinyan did not specify what kind of "foreign force" he has in mind. Listing the achievements of the Armenian revolution at the request of DW, he said that "the main achievement is that Armenia is now a democratic country, systemic corruption has been eradicated, there are no economic monopolies and all citizens are equal before the law and really decide the fate of the authorities."