Armenian Deputy: The way to Europe for Armenia is non-alternative and irreversible
ArmInfo.Despite the membership in the EEU, the way to Europe for Armenia is still uncontested and irreversible, Edmond Marukyan, a member of the Yelq parliamentary fraction, said at the conference "Armenia-EU Relations and Their Prospects" in Yerevan.
"Some Armenian politicians, trying to justify the fact of Armenia's joining the EEU, stated that the republic had no alternative to this. It was also stated that membership in the EEU for trade and economic cooperation with the EU is not an obstacle. EEU was tried to be presented as the guarantor of Armenian security. I can say that all the statements were false", he said.
Marukyan believes that membership in the EEU has tied Armenia's hands, since Yerevan is no longer able to sign agreements on economic cooperation on its own, for example, how recently Georgia and China did, but only within the framework of the EEU. An alternative to the EEU for Armenia, according to his estimates, was and is the integration with the European Union. As for security, for example, only the sale of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan after Armenia's membership in the EEU significantly increased. And the hot April of last year, in the opinion of Marukyan, finally dispelled the last myth.
"Armenia's security can be protected only by Armenia itself, and it is naive to expect that it will be provided by someone else, for this, Armenia needs a strong, liberal economy capable in its turn to stop migration and facilitate the return of citizens to Armenia. Exclusively within the framework of one logic - moving in the direction of Europe," the parliamentarian summed up.