YEREVAN. – “I have great respect for the Prime Minister of Armenia [Tigran Sargsyan], but I would advise him to carefully read the agreement which he wanted to sign with the EU.” 

Sergey Glazyev, who is former Executive Secretary of the Customs Union and advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, told the aforesaid to Aravot daily. 

“We asked Mr. Glazyev how they were preparing to work with an official [i.e., Tigran Sargsyan] who was against, in principle, Armenia’s inclusion in this system [i.e., the Customs Union].

‘“Had the Prime Minister of Armenia carefully read what he was preparing to endow to Brussels, that he was preparing to renounce Armenia’s sovereignty, [and] subordinating it to trade and economic relations, I believe he would have reviewed his methodology,’” Aravot quotes Sergey Glazyev as saying.  

To note, following the talks that were held on September 3 in Moscow between Armenian and Russian Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin, Sargsyan had announced that Armenia plans to join the Customs Union and subsequently engage in the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union. Aside from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan likewise are members in the Customs Union.