YEREVAN. – A Eurasian Integration Committee should be set up within the Government of Armenia, stated chairman Hmayak Hovhannisyan of the Politologists’ Union of Armenia, on Thursday.

In his view, without this committee the National Assembly (NA) will be unable to examine the entire package of the bills that are necessary to make Armenia’s legislation comply with that of the Customs Union.

Hovhannisyan noted that the complementarity in foreign relations can be restored if a standing committee on Eurasian integration is formed in the Armenian parliament, since a Standing Committee on European Integration already exists.     

As per the political scientist, the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations should work on this legislation; but it cannot work on this matter on its own. And if it receives assistance from the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs, an ambiguous situation will be created, since this process refers to Armenia’s foreign policy.         

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.