Current:Home > BackArmenian leader travels to Russia despite tensions and promises economic bloc cooperation-InfoLens
Armenian leader travels to Russia despite tensions and promises economic bloc cooperation
View Date:2024-12-23 17:05:36
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whose country’s relations with Russia grew tense this year, said Monday that when Armenia takes the rotating chairmanship of a Moscow-dominated economic alliance he will try to suppress politics obstructing regional integration.
Armenia is to become the chairman country of the Eurasian Economic Union in 2024. The bloc, established in 2014, includes Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan along with Russia and Armenia and encourages the free movement of goods and services.
Pashinyan in the past year has offended Russia by refusing to allow a Moscow-led security alliance to hold exercises in Armenia and by declining to attend an alliance summit.
Russia also was angered when Armenia joined the Treaty of Rome, which established the International Criminal Court that has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on charges of war crimes for deportation of children during the war with Ukraine.
However, Pashinyan attended a meeting of the union’s Supreme Council in St. Petersburg on Monday.
The union “and its economic principles should not correlate with political ambitions,” Pashinyan said at the meeting. Armenia is “trying to suppress all attempts to politicize Eurasian integration.”
Armenia is highly dependent on Russian trade and hosts a Russian military base, but relations deteriorated in the past year as a Russian peacekeeping force failed to unblock the road leading from Armenia to the ethnic Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan took full control of the region in a lightning offensive in September.
veryGood! (94514)
Related
- Mike Tyson is expected to honor late daughter during Jake Paul fight. Here's how.
- US sends soldiers to Alaska amid Russian military activity increase in the area
- Texas lawmakers show bipartisan support to try to stop a man’s execution
- College Football Playoff bracketology: SEC, Big Ten living up to expectations
- 'Devastation is absolutely heartbreaking' from Southern California wildfire
- Into the Fire’s Cathy Terkanian Denies Speculation Vanessa Bowman Is Actually Aundria Bowman’s Daughter
- Singer JoJo Addresses Rumor of Cold Encounter With Christina Aguilera
- Fire destroys 105-year-old post office on Standing Rock Reservation
- Only 8 monkeys remain free after more than a week outside a South Carolina compound
- Good American Blowout Deals: Khloe Kardashian-Approved Styles Up to 78% Off With $22 Dresses
Ranking
- 15 new movies you'll want to stream this holiday season, from 'Emilia Perez' to 'Maria'
- Vermont town official, his wife and her son found shot to death in their home
- Eva Mendes Reveals Whether She'd Ever Return to Acting
- For families of Key Bridge collapse victims, a search for justice begins
- Chris Evans Shares Thoughts on Starting a Family With Wife Alba Baptista
- 'Survivor' Season 47 premiere: Date, time, cast, how to watch and stream
- See Inside Gigi Hadid's Daughter Khai's Super Sweet 4th Birthday Party
- 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story': Release date, cast, trailer, where to watch
Recommendation
-
California teen pleads guilty in Florida to making hundreds of ‘swatting’ calls across the US
-
Woman accused of driving an SUV into a crowd in Minneapolis and killing a teenager
-
What to know about the pipeline fire burning for a third day in Houston’s suburbs
-
Atlantic City mayor, wife indicted for allegedly beating and abusing their teenage daughter
-
Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's Son Moses Martin Reveals His Singing Talents at Concert
-
Atlantic City mayor, wife indicted for allegedly beating and abusing their teenage daughter
-
As Jimmy Carter nears his 100th birthday, a musical gala celebrates the ‘rock-and-roll president’
-
Eva Mendes Reveals Whether She'd Ever Return to Acting