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"The Eurasian Intergovernmental Council sitting is taking place in difficult times for Armenia," Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in his opening remarks during the opening of Council meeting in Yerevan on Friday.

"For two weeks now, fighting has been raging on all the way along the Line of Contact in Nagorno-Karabakh with the use of all types of modern weaponry. Towns and villages, civilian facilities and infrastructure have been under heavy artillery shelling in Nagorno-Karabakh and in the Republic of Armenia," Pashinyan said.

"We have suffered numerous casualties and injuries, including among the civilian population. However, I assure you that despite all these difficulties, our people are consolidated as never before with the firm resolve to stand up to the last in defending our freedom and independence," added Pashinyan.

Pashinyan next thanked the members of all delegations for coming to Armenia at this difficult time and wished a fruitful work and constructive debates

Ton note, an enlarged meeting is to be held as part of the Yerevan meeting of the EAEU Intergovernmental Council.

Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EAEC) Mikhail Myasnikovich, RF Premier Mikhail Mishustin, Belarus Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko, and Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin have arrived in Yerevan to attend the meeting. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Alikbek Jekshenkulov participated on behalf of the Kyrgyz Republic.