YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan spoke with Zhamanak daily.

To the query as to whether Armenia is preparing a new document with the European Union, or whether the EU Association Agreement will be amended, Mnatsakanyan responded as follows:

“This is a process that takes time. I don’t want to say the Association Agreement will no longer be. No, we seek it, but we need to work; this will be a legal work involving experts. We will try to find the appropriate version of the document.        

“It is certainly possible to have what we seek: the Association Agreement to the extent that it fits our objectives and our current state of affairs,” Zhamanak quotes Zohrab Mnatsakanyan 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. And in response to this development, the European Union had stated that the signing of the Armenia-EU Association Agreement and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area agreement is now doubtful.