Despite membership in the pro-Russian organizations CSTO and EurAsEC, the country's main trade and economic partners are Europe and the United States. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan spoke about this in an interview with the Argentine TV channel Todo Noticias.

“We are a democracy and we want to strengthen democratic institutions. We see that, for example, the United States and the European Union are the main partners. Now we are deepening economic and political relations with Brussels and Washington,” Mirzoyan said.

As for relations with the Russian Federation, according to the official, Armenia and Russia do not speak “the same language”; there are disagreements between them. The minister also touched upon Armenia’s relations with NATO: Yerevan interacts with the alliance, but there are currently no plans to join the organization.

Mirzoyan also agreed with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that Armenia is ready to become closer to the European Union and discuss the possibility of applying for EU membership.

Let us recall that recently Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that “the situation in relations between Armenia and the Russian Federation does not inspire optimism, and Yerevan, under far-fetched pretexts, is deliberately leading to the collapse of relations.”

Recently, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and members of his government have openly criticized the Kremlin. He was accused of the passivity of Russian peacekeepers during the last Karabakh war. In addition, Armenia expresses doubts about the advisability of membership in the CSTO, a post-Soviet analogue of NATO led by the Russian Federation.