Serzh Sargsyan’s attendance at the forthcoming meeting on March 12 and 13 in Astana with the presidents of the three founding members of the Eurasian Union – Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, as political analyst Stepan Safaryan is sure, was not beneficial to the founding member countries of the Union. “Obviously, Belarus and Kazakhstan would like to discuss the impact of the new sanctions provided for against Moscow on their new economy. They will discuss the losses caused to their economy that they suffer being Russia’s ally and would try to gain benefit from Russia. In this respect, neither Russia nor Belarus and Kazakhstan benefits from the attendance of Armenia because one more bargainer will be added. It is beneficial to everyone that these problems are discussed without Armenia,” said Stepan Safaryan.
In his words, as Armenia does not have much weight in the EaEU project, they have left it out of their meetings and show that it is a meeting that has nothing to do with the EaEU, although the EaEU-related issues will be discussed. “It is not that Armenia does not suffer for being dependent on Russia, but, as there is no one to invite Armenia, these issues will be discussed by those, who are able to put claims to each other.” Recall that Armenia’s deputy FM Shavarsh Kocharyan explained the non-attendance of the Armenian side by the fact of having no disagreements with the EaEU member states.
Arpine SIMONYAN
