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This situation is convenient for negotiating with Azerbaijan because if Armenia joins the Eurasian Economic Union, there will be less instruments for negotiating with Azerbaijan,” political scientist Aghasi Yenokyan told 168 Hours, commenting on the delay in Armenia’s accession to EaEU. 

The analyst named several possible reasons for the delay, noting that Armenia is not so interesting for EaEU and that is why its members are in no hurry in that matter.

According to Yerevan Press Club chairman Boris Navasardyan, there are several obstacles in Armenia’s EaEU accession process: Armenia’s membership in WTO, the issue of Azerbaijan’s membership, and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Political scientist Sergey Minasyan believes that the main reason for the delay is that there are serious disagreements among the three founding member states of EaEU and the “trio” uses the issue of Armenia’s membership as a lever of influence on each other.