Speaker of the Armenian Parliament: Yerevan is ready to become a candidate for EU membership

2024-02-29T13:43:41.570Z

Highlights: Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan admitted the possibility of Yerevan deepening with the EU. “We are ready and will move in the direction that will provide us with maximum security,” he said. He noted that the current security system does not work, but there is no talk of withdrawing the Russian military base, just like NATO. Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Moscow proceeds from the fact that Armenia is still a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan admitted the possibility of Yerevan deepening with the EU and obtaining the status of a candidate for joining the association.