Armenia's second most important parliamentary party led by businessman Gagik Tsarukian said on Wednesday that it supports, in principle, the country's accession to a Russian-led "Eurasian Union" of former Soviet republics.
Tigran Urikhanian, a spokesman for the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), argued that Armenia is already part of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Russian-dominated military alliance, and has close economic ties with other ex-Soviet states. He said this can "serve as a basis" for Armenian membership of the union championed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"However, that declarative program [on the Eurasian Union] … is not yet underpinned by pragmatic provisions; no proposals have been presented on the basis of which we could deliver a final verdict," Urikhanian told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am).
Armenian News
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