YEREVAN. – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s demeanor in Astana was fully comprehensible. You say why he not said something. What, should he have gotten up and beaten Nazarbayev?    

Armenia’s opposition New Times party Chairman Aram Karapetyan stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Wednesday.

Karapetyan noted that he had forewarned, ahead of the meeting in Astana, that Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev would be up to no good.

“I didn’t know whether he will write a letter, but I knew that he will do something,” he said.

The opposition party leader expressed a conviction that what the Kazakh president did was stupid, since it did not contain any material for discussion. 

Aram Karapetyan added that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to Nazarbayev’s announcement was shocking because, as per Karapetyan, Putin knew and he could have prevented this scandal, yet he allowed it. 

The treaty on the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union was signed, in the Kazakh capital city Astana on May 29, by the leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. In addition, Armenia President Serzh Sargsyan participated in the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council and offered to sign a treaty on Armenia’s Union accession by no later than June 15.

In response, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev spoke about the letter by Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev calling to accept Armenia into the Eurasian Union only within the limits of the country’s internationally recognized borders, and not including Nagorno-Karabakh. But Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, stressed the need to sign a respective document with Armenia in the shortest period of time.