Heritage: Armenia must follow European integration course

PanARMENIAN.Net - Heritage opposition party stands against Armenia’s joining the Eurasian Union, seeing the country’s future in cooperation with Europe, Heritage parliamentary group leader said.

As Stepan Safaryan stressed during foreign policy forum, “Yerevan must adhere to the course of European integration with the country’s Eurasian Union bid rendering Armenia-EU Association Agreement impossible.”

As Safaryan noted, Heritage spoke against extension of Russian military base deployment in Armenia to promote Armenia’s European integration course.

On November 18, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have signed a decree to set up a joint body to oversee and regulate the economy and trade in the three former Soviet countries. The Eurasian Economic Commission will be set up in January to regulate and to gradually take over functions in shaping and executing trade and economic policies from Russian, Belarusian and Kazakh authorities in a way similar to the economic bodies of the European Union.

The forum was organized by the Armenian Center of Political and International Studies with the assistance of U.S. National Democratic Institute.