Armenia's decision to join the Customs Union was made
from the USA's sanction, a member of the "Karabakh" committee, former
adviser of the first president of Armenia, Ashot Manucharyan, said at today's
press-conference.
"The European Union and Europe are two different
ideas. The European Union is nothing but a structure through which the USA
exercise control over Europe, and if Armenia signed an agreement with the EU,
it would be forced to reconstruct the power structure in the country driving it
towards the American system, which is not yet beneficial to the USA and which
we may avoid in case of joining the Customs Union", - he said. He also
added that such a decision was a surprise for the authorities of Armenia, as in
fact the active negotiations with the EU for three years were ignored. The expert said that the decision to join
the Customs Union was adopted under Russia's strong pressure. The Customs Union
seems to be an economic union, but actually, it is a geo-political one, which
distributes the influence spheres at
the world arena.
"This decision will become the beginning of the
new war between the USA and Russia, but not its ending", - Manucharyan
concluded.