The initiative to start the EU membership process came from the civil society, they presented a draft law in this regard and our government approved it. There is a high probability that our parliament will approve that law, so that we can legally start the process of getting closer to the EU.
RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan mentioned this today, January 23, during a panel discussion organized within the framework of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"Why did we want to be closer to the European Union, because we are a democracy? When you are a democracy, you want to be closer to the mainstream of democracy, because otherwise it would be illogical. And now we cooperate very closely with the European Union."
To be honest, tremendous changes and improvements have taken place in our relations with the European Union in recent years.
For example, we have just started the negotiations on the visa liberalization agreement, which has been on our agenda for many years, but we have not been able to even start the negotiations, and I hope that we will be able to finish and sign it as soon as possible.
Now Armenia is included in the program of the European Peace Instrument, which is also very important. We now have a European civil observation mission in our country, which is also very important.
We are in the process of implementing a comprehensive and extended partnership agreement with the EU, and we are working very closely," he said.
Referring to the economic relations with the EU, Pashinyan noted.
"Of course, we want to be closer to the European Union economically as well. But on the other hand, we want to be closer economically to the countries of our region.
Because, unfortunately, from the beginning of our independence, we were in a kind of economic isolation, because our borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan were closed and are closed, and thus to bring changes not only in our region, but also in the whole world.
