EAEU will be next after CSTO: Areshev on Armenian authorities’ deliberate course

Quite serious factors are working to make Armenia’s pivot toward the West a reality, Andrey Areshev, political scientist and expert at the Strategic Culture Foundation, said at Alpha Media Centre during the panel discussion “Deliberate pivot: Armenia’s future in the CSTO and the fate of the November 9 agreement.”

“We remember that Nikol Pashinyan recently visited Brussels once again and confirmed his intention to apply for membership in the European Union in 2027 or 2028, I believe. He may not get membership, but nevertheless, the current course of the Armenian government seems to me to be conscious and deliberate,” the expert said.

According to him, the Armenian authorities are doing everything they can to distance themselves from Russia as much as possible, and after the CSTO, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will be next.

“And sooner rather than later. Of course, such actions could have the most serious economic and geopolitical consequences,” Areshev said.