The reduction in the amount of Armenia's trade with Russia and other countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will not lead to a crisis, said Mikael Agasandyan, Director of the First Department for CIS Countries at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), in an interview with RIA Novosti.

"This does not lead to crisis shocks, since Armenia's share in Russia's foreign trade is not so high, and Yerevan's trade with Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan is insignificant," the Russian diplomat noted.

Agasandyan reflected also on the Russian and EAEU restrictions on the supply of some Armenian products. According to him, such measures are due to the need to ensure the import of safe products, as well as to comply with the sanitary and phytosanitary requirements in force in the EAEU.

“Such inspections by state control bodies at the state border crossing points of the [Eurasian Economic] Union’s member states are provided for by the EAEU treaty,” the Russian MFA official explained.