Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan should have shown political virtue and should have refused to attend in the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, Deputy Chairman of Heritage Party Armen Martirosyan said during a press conference in Yerevan on April 13.
"The fact that the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council members showed disrespect and decided to move the meeting from Yerevan to Moscow not to displease Baku is the result of the Armenian authorities' pale policy," he said, adding that the Armenian side should have expressed a strict stand and should have boycotted the meeting.
For her part, Head of the heritage Party Faction Zaruhi Postanjyan said that the Armenian authorities should not have sent such a high-ranking official to that meeting because by sending the prime minister they have legitimized the Azerbaijani aggression and shared the position of Nazarbayev and Lukashenko.
It became known on April 12 that Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan would participate in the Moscow Summit of the Prime Ministers of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) Member States. ArmInfo's own sources close to the Government say that it was not easy for the Armenian prime minister to take such a decision because the cancellation of the earlier planned summit in Yerevan at Kazakhstan's initiative and the move of the summit to Moscow placed the Armenian prime minister in a dilemma - whether to stage a walkout in response to the walkout or to accept the invitation and attend the summit in Moscow.
To note, the press office of the Eurasian Economic Commission reported earlier that given the current situation in Armenia, the EEU summit has been moved from Yerevan to Moscow and will be held on April 13. Earlier the Russian media reported that the summit, which was to take place in Yerevan on April 8, was canceled at the initiative of Kazakhstan. The latter said that Azerbaijan, which is no member of the EEU, may qualify the event in Armenia on the days of escalation of the Karabakh conflict as unilateral support to the Armenian side. In the meantime, Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan said that he saw no serious reasons to move the summit from Yerevan to Moscow. It was previously reported that the agenda of the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council would include priority tasks related to Eurasian economic integration. It is not clear yet whether the agenda will be updated.