Before joining the Eurasian Union Armenia should receive clarification about Karabakh's status in the Union, Kiro Manoyan, Head of the ARFD Bureau's Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office, said in Yerevan on Monday.
He thinks that following the statements on Armenia's possible signing of the Association Agreement with the EU, Russia started exerting pressure on Armenia to force it to join the Eurasian Union. Manoyan emphasized that Armenia's Association membership should not hinder its Eurasian integration. He added that before signing the Armenia-EU Association Agreement, the Armenian negotiators should present the core of the 1,000-page document, publish it and only after that decide whether to sign it or not.
To recall, on July 10 Stefan Fule, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, said in Yerevan that the European Union does not make Armenia choose between the integration projects. Fule thinks that the signing of the Association Agreement will not restrict Armenia's interaction with other countries. In the meantime, the European Commissioner stressed that there should be elementary compatibility between the two integration projects. He said that the EU does not force its partners to restrict their relations with Russia. He added that the EU will encourage the cooperation with Russia in the fields that meet Armenia's interests.