Tomorrow I am leaving for St. Petersburg to participate in the session of the EAEU intergovernmental council (prime ministers’ format). Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this on his official Facebook page.

On July 26 and 27, the regular session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council will be held in St. Petersburg, which will be chaired by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Dmitry Medvedev։

He reminded that due to the status acquired in RA after the constitutional changes, the Prime Minister of Armenia is involved in the EAEU High Economic Council in the format of heads of states, and this issue is also resolved de jure, that is, the Prime Minister will continue to represent Armenia here.

At the same time, he explained why he participates in the work of the EAEU intergovernmental council.

“The legal regulations of the EAEU intergovernmental council’s work have not yet been aligned with the new text of the RA Constitution, and if I did not participate in the session of the Council of Prime Ministers, decisions could not be made and the format would be paralyzed,” he noted, adding that during the days of the Velvet Revolution, he stated that paralyzing the EAEU “is not our goal.”

“Since I announced back in the days of the Velvet Revolution that it is not our goal to paralyze the EAEU, on the contrary, we must do everything to make our country’s membership in that organization more effective, I made a decision to go to St. Petersburg,” the Prime Minister said.

In Saint-Petersburg, the heads of governments of the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union will discuss the issues of digital development of EAEU states, cooperation in the fields of energy and transport, industrial cooperation and customs cooperation, as well as improving the legal and normative base of the EAEU.

Let’s remind that on July 23, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putina telephone conversation took place between them, during which the parties discussed issues related to EAEU and Armenian-Russian cooperation.