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Opposition MP Tigran Abrahamyan has addressed concerns over Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's trilateral meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to be held in Brussels on Friday.

“The high-level meeting has quite expectedly given rise to concerns and fears,” Abrahamyan, secretary of the opposition Pativ Unem faction, wrote on Facebook.

“It’s not about senior U.S. or EU officials, but the fact that Armenia is represented at the talks by someone who has long turned the country into the epicenter of a fierce struggle between geopolitical actors,” the lawmaker stated.

He highlighted Armenia’s extensive cooperation with the U.S., EU and NATO under the previous governments, which “was never seen as an anti-Russian process and could not cause a new war.”

“The things have changed now as there is a man who has already turned Armenia into an object by his adventurous policies. The unilateral blows have thrown Armenia back for decades, into the swamp of despair and uncertainty," Abrahamyan noted.