Armenian PM considers foreign policy diversification urgent

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: Armenia should be able to diversify its foreign policy, as it is in blockade now. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan stated about it during the talk with the journalists touching upon the relations of Armenia with the European Union and the Customs Union. “We have to deepen and expand the relations both in the European and Eurasian directions. It is one of the most urgent issues of our foreign policy. In this case there can be no doubt, as when the Armenian President made the corresponding statement about that on September 3, that we want to join the customs Union, during the press conference Serzh Sargsyan also noted that it does not mean that our relations with the European Union must be frozen”, - said the Prime Minister Sargsyan, Armenpress reports.

In the result of the negotiations on September 3, 2013 in Moscow the Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin confirmed the aim of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation in the direction of further development of economic integration processes in the Eurasian territory. In that context the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan announced about the Armenia’s decision to join the Customs Union and the necessity of implementation corresponding steps for that aim and in future about participating in formation of the Eurasian economic union. The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin expressed his support to the abovementioned decision of Armenia and informed about the readiness of the Russian side to support the process. Serzh Sargsyan noted that this decision is not refusal from dialogue with European organizations.

Earlier it was intended that Yerevan will sign the Association and Free Trade Zone Agreement with the European Union in Vilnius. The Eastern Partnership summit will be held on November 28-29 in Vilnius, during which the signing (or pre-signing) of the Association Agreement with some Eastern Partnership countries is expected.