Armenia responds to talk over granting Azerbaijan EAEU observer statusDecember 17, 2021 - 13:47 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Foreign Minister spokesperson Vahan Hunanyan on Friday, December 17 commented on conversations about granting Azerbaijan observer status in the Eurasian Economic Union, maintaining that such decisions have to be based on a consensus among member states. As of now, Hunanyan said, there is no application by any country to get such a status in the EAEU. “The procedure of granting observer status in the Eurasian Economic Union is defined by Article 109th of the 2014, May 29 treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union," the spokesperson told Armenpress. "Granting observer status to any country requires a consensus decision, before the adoption of which consultations are taking place within the Union, also aimed at finding out the economic appropriateness of that particular step." Hunanyan's comments came after Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the development of a dialogue between Azerbaijan and the Eurasian Economic Union – of which Armenia is a member – would "contribute to the intensification of mutual trade". Earlier, the first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, proposed granting Azerbaijan observer status in the EAEU Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. Partner news | International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities. Armenia, Russia agree on repairing railway destroyed in floods Yerevan and Moscow have agreed to repair a flood-stricken railway in northern Armenia. |