ARMENIA’S DECISION TO JOIN CUSTOMS UNION WAS CALCULATED AND BALANCED -PRIME MINISTER
YEREVAN, October 1. / ARKA /. Armenia’s decision to join the Russia-led
Customs Union was calculated and balanced, Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan said today in Russia’s St. Peterbsurg at a meeting with the
Russian transport minister Maxim Sokolov.
Sargsyan traveled to the Russian city to attend a session of the
joint Russian-Armenian intergovernmental commission on economic
cooperation. Sargsyan and Sokolov are the Armenian and Russian
co-chairmen of the commission.
“No one invited us to join the Customs Union. Armenia’s decision in
favor of the Customs Union was calculated and balanced,” Sargsyan said.
According to him, on the one hand this decision is backed
by the historical experience and on the other -hand by a
cold calculation, aimed at creating an environment that is
fully consistent with the national interests of Armenia. He
added that integration associations should be formed
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