Wednesday, March 6 2019 15:51

ArmInfo. The cooperation between  Yerevan and Brussels is completely transparent for Russia. The Prime  Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said this in an interview with  TASS.

"I want to emphasize one important detail: we are completely  transparent to our Russian partners in this process," he said. "And,  very importantly, the European Union does not raise any geopolitical  and foreign policy issues or conditions in this process." "This  cooperation," the Armenian Prime Minister added, "concerns only  internal democratic reforms in Armenia, especially after the events  in the country last year.  This reform agenda is very important for  us."

The Prime Minister reminded that last year there was a non-violent,  velvet, popular revolution in Armenia.  As Pashinyan noted, for  Armenia it is very important that all segments of the society in  Russia correctly understand its essence, its reasons. "Unfortunately,  many expert circles in Russia are still trying to present what  happened in Armenia as an event from a series of so-called color  revolutions. But it is very important for us that our Russian friends  and colleagues understand that what happened has no geopolitical  context and not a single foreign power was not involved in the  process. It is a matter of national dignity and my personal dignity.   Such an interpretation - that someone used the Armenian people for  their geopolitical purposes - is offensive to us. Armenia - without a  new country, an independent nation with a high sense of dignity, "  Pashinyan said.

According to the Armenian Prime Minister, it is very important for  Yerevan to be a reliable partner. "And we will be a reliable partner  for all whom we ourselves consider to be our reliable partner, there  can be no doubt about that. And those who are not reliable, we must  evaluate - should we consider them our partners?" He said.

Touching on Yerevan's position on cooperation within the CIS, the  Eurasian Economic Union, and assessing the effectiveness of these  integration associations at the present time, Nikol Pashinyan said  that these associations have proved their importance, they are very  important for Armenia. At the same time, he stressed the need to  improve them in order to make them more effective for their real  development to take place. "If an organization has proven its  importance, this does not mean that it should not be further  developed. On the contrary, the development of the organization is  very important for cooperation within the CIS, the EAEU to be more  efficient and promising," he said.  

Speaking about relations with Russia, the head of the Armenian  government stated that the EEU is a priority for the further  development of his country's economic cooperation with Moscow. "The  fact is that within the framework of the EAEU our main economic  partner is Russia. Of course, this is good, on the one hand, and on  the other, it makes us think about the fact that we should further  develop these relations. But for us it is very important that mutual  the trade turnover was at a good level with other members of the  EAEU, because it would mean an important and natural development of  this association - we will do everything to make this happen, "he  said.  Nikol Pashinyan reminded that a very important event is soon  planned - the EAEU has signed a free trade agreement with Iran, and  now it is being ratified in the parliaments of the countries. "And I  hope that during our chairmanship in the EAEU the agreement will come  into force. I recently visited Iran and I can say that they are also  looking forward to when it comes into force, because it really opens  up new opportunities for economic cooperation ", the prime minister  concluded.