EC plans to appoint specialist in nuclear safety regulation in Armenia

The European Commission's Directorate General for International Partnerships has published a cooperation agreement with the State Committee for Nuclear Safety Regulation of Armenia.

“The State Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee of Armenia, together with its technical support organization, aligns itself with the initiatives of the EU on stress tests and regulations of the EU and the Association of Western European Nuclear Regulators,” the document says.

The European Commission specialists are planning to appoint a specialist who will accelerate Armenia's integration with the EU regulations.

“To accelerate this process and work on expanded implementation - for example, participation in peer review and stress tests - regulatory competence in the field of nuclear safety is required,” the text of the document states.

Deputy Director of the RUDN Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts, member of the Russian Civic Chamber Nikita Danyuk, in a conversation with RT, suggested that Europe is seeking to create “another point of pressure” on Russia in Armenia.

“When you create processes that should standardize EU norms and regulations in such an area as nuclear energy, this will concern interaction with the authorities that are responsible for energy, for safety, for management at the highest level.

That is, this is an attempt to influence Armenia through energy standards and make it meet the EU standards to the maximum, but in fact this nuclear security will most likely include a full security loop.

By and large, this is an attempt to oust Russia from Armenia,” the expert noted.

Political scientist Alexander Dudchak expressed a similar position, noting that "European integration is not the path to Europe, but the path away from Russia."

“The European Commission is a structure that acts in the interests of the West in the world and, in particular, in the post-Soviet space.

We see the aggressive activity of the EU in the face of its various structures, this is one of the manifestations of such activity.

What they offer is not aimed at making life better for Armenia, ”the political scientist concluded in a conversation with RT.

Earlier, the European Commission planned to allocate €5 million to a program of strategic communications at the regional level for the states of the Western Balkans and Turkey.