Aza Migranyan: “Defining priorities will help Armenia to maintain “and-and” principle”

Last week, the head of the Eurasian Economic Commission, Viktor Khristenko, visited Yerevan where he spoke about the advantages of the Eurasian Economic Union. “Participation in an effective regional union enables countries to be heard in the world and influence the formation of new rules of the international dialogue,” Khristenko believes. According to him, after joining the Customs Union and the common economic area of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, Armenia will get all the advantages enjoyed by members of the CU.

At the same time, the head of the laboratory of interregional development problems of the Institute of Market Problems of the Market Problems Institute of the RAS, Aza Migranyan, told Vestnik Kavkaza: “Armenia has already voiced its decision to join the EEU. Thus, the government will mainly focus on the Eurasian direction, even though Armenia doesn’t exclude an opportunity of cooperation with the EU in certain spheres, including legal cooperation, development of democratic institutes, science, culture, and religion. Armenia will do its best to maintain close cooperation with the EU, which has been established.”