Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council Armen Grigoryan shrugged off media allegations that Armenia is preparing to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus.
Speaking to reporters after a government meeting Grigoryan said Armenia is a sovereign, democratic state and will continue to be so.
On February 7, in a televised interview with Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov Belarusian president Aleksander Lukashenko’s argued that some post-Soviet countries - Ukraine, Armenia, Kazakhstan and other Central Asian states will have to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Lukashenko said: "Armenia has nowhere else to go."