Kremlin: Armenia has a sovereign right to join EU

ArmInfo. It's Armenia's sovereign right to plan to join the European Union (EU). This was stated on February 12 by Dmitry Peskov, the official representative of the Kremlin.  "There are certain political forces in Armenia that believe that orientation towards the EU will bring some additional dividends to the country. This is Armenia's sovereign right," he said at a briefing, Izvestia reports.

At the same time, as noted by the Kremlin representative, Armenians  and all other participants in Armenia's EU integration process will  still have to determine the extent of the Transcaucasian republic's  desire to join the union.  Peskov recalled that many countries have  been waiting for  decades to be admitted to the EU. 

"For now, we proceed from the fact that Armenia continues to receive  dividends from membership in the EAEU, in the processes of Eurasian  economic integration," he added.