YEREVAN. – Armenia’s joining the customs union will remove country’s participation in Karabakh peace process, Armenian political analyst said.

The customs union appears to be a super-government structure that will not only coordinate single customs policy, but will approve legal acts.

“This will mean lack of independence on foreign policy issues. In this case, we can forget about Armenia’s participation in solving any issues concerning Karabakh. Once Robert Kocharyan and Vartan Oskanian removed Nagorno-Karabakh from the peace process, and now Armenia is excluded. Baku will solve problems with Moscow, not Yerevan,” Davit Shahnazaryan said.

Shahnazaryan, the head of Konkord analytic center, noted that Russia achieved its goal by exerting pressure on Armenia. The evidence of this pressure was weapon sales to Azerbaijan and Sargsyan-Putin meeting during which direct threats of war from Azerbaijan were voiced.