Armenia will have new agreement with EU next year – analyst
The passing year was rather active in Armenia in terms of foreign policy, Karen Bekaryan, chairman of European Integration NGO, told a news conference on Monday, adding that the parliaments of Kazakhstan and Belarus recently ratified the treaty on Armenia’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union and Armenia will become a full member of the EEU from January 2.
Regarding the Association Agreement with the European Union, the analyst said that the political part of the agreement has already been negotiated. In his words, the EU partners understood that the EEU was founded as, and is, an economic union.
“Next year we will have a new agreement with the EU, which still has to be given a name: association – minus, or an agreement on strategic cooperation,” he said.