The RA-US-EU meeting is an attempt to involve the South Caucasus in a confrontation
The department notes that it is obvious that the West wants to make Armenia a tool for the implementation of its extremely dangerous ideas in the South Caucasus.
The Russian Foreign Ministry considers the meeting held in Brussels on April 5 in the format of Armenia-USA-European Union as another attempt of the collective West to involve the South Caucasus in a geopolitical confrontation.
"The irresponsible and destructive intervention of extra-regional forces in the affairs of the South Caucasus, the desire to drive a wedge between the countries of the region and their neighbors can have the most negative consequences for stability, security and economic development in the region, create new dividing lines, as well as an uncontrolled increase in tension," said the Russian in the statement published on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes that it is obvious that the West wants to make Armenia a tool for the implementation of its extremely dangerous ideas in the South Caucasus. "We know that Washington and Brussels, under fleeting promises, are trying to achieve the withdrawal of Armenia from the CSTO and EAEU, the withdrawal of the Russian military base and border guards," the statement emphasizes.
The department calls on the RA leadership not to allow the West to deceive them and lead the country down a wrong path, which is fraught with a security vacuum, serious problems in the economy and the emergence of population outflow.
"The volumes of grant support announced in Brussels are not compared to the multi-billion benefits that Armenia continues to receive from cooperation with Moscow within the EAEU and CIS framework. It is these factors that have ensured a multiple increase in the turnover of goods in recent years (it has quadrupled since 2018) and, as a result, a record growth of the economy and an increase in the well-being of the population," the statement states.
To remind, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Brussels on April 5.
