2024-04-05 16:55:10
Armenia demands $3 billion a year from Europe to secede from Russia. Europe only agrees to 1 billion.
As Day.Az reports, Armenian media write about this.
“The Pashinyan-von der Leyen-Blinken meeting scheduled for tomorrow in Brussels will shed light on whether Armenia will apply for EU membership, follow the path of Europe, or continue to maintain a precarious status quo, balancing between Russia and Europe.”
The ruling party is especially looking forward to the results of this meeting, after which they will meet with Nikol Pashinyan and sum up the final result. The fact is that during the last closed meeting of the prime minister and pro-government legislators, the latter once again expressed their position – they say, there is no need to take a gamble and apply for EU membership, since our economy is heavily dependent on Russia, and it is difficult in Russia endure this “betrayal”. There were even opinions that this not fully calculated application to Europe could cost us not only the Zangezur corridor, but also the entire Syunik (Zangezur – order.).
However, in the end, pro-government circles came to the conclusion that specific guarantees in the form of serious financial support should be demanded from the West. They even calculated that the West should allocate $2-3 billion annually to Armenia for at least 7-8 years to make it possible to diversify the Armenian economy and separate from Russia. Russia should be forced out of the region. That is, this “betrayal” has a price, and it is $3 billion a year.
We were told that in response to the concerns of his teammates, Pashinyan stated that no such guarantees had been given to him. However, the prime minister whispered to a narrow circle of representatives of the “Civil Contract” that Europe seemed to agree to provide financial support – in the amount of at least about 1 billion dollars,” the publication writes.
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