ArmInfo.Tracking the EAEU Yerevan event, unfortunately, allows us to state that the whole interest of our society came down to one question - whether Vladimir Putin will come or not, and if he does, whether he will meet with Kocharyan or Pashinyan. A similar opinion was expressed by ArmInfo Director of the Armenian Center for National and Strategic Studies Manvel Sargsyan.
"At first glance, only this took place in Armenia on October 1. Meanwhile, in reality there is a fundamental process in which Russia and China are trying to get out of the situation created as a result of the confrontation with the West, they are trying to change the situation," he noted .
In this light, the analyst considers the borders of the EAEU as obsolete, and the idea underlying its creation as overgrown with insignificance. According to him, today there is an attempt to use the EAEU as a mere mechanism to create new relations with completely different countries. And in Yerevan on October 1, only the first stage of this process took place.
On October 1, a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council was held in Yerevan with the participation of the leaders of 5 EAEU member states, as well as invited guests: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Lun and Moldovan President Igor Dodon. Within the framework of the Yerevan summit, negotiations between the presidents of Iran and Russia, as well as negotiations between the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin, took place.
"Actually, Vladimir Putin said almost everything, and in plain text. The first is the gratitude expressed by the Russian president of Armenia in the person of the prime minister for the ability to gather the Iranian president and Singaporean prime minister in Yerevan. They arrived in Yerevan, which is very interesting and important, and I don't know if these leaders would come to Minsk, for example. Putin himself by the evening, apparently, was very pleased with the results of the Yerevan summit. He was satisfied because he managed to start a new idea and make it a reality, "the analyst summed up.