YEREVAN. – Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev violated all norms and, by making use of the opportunity, he provided “lip service” for Azerbaijan.

Communist Party of Armenia (CPA) Central Committee First Secretary Tachat Sargsyan stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Saturday. 

But as per Sargsyan, this is not the first time when Nazarbayev “assumes” Azerbaijan’s and Turkey’s backing and speaks for the protection of their interests.

“The issue was set in a way that Armenia, and not Armenia together with Nagorno-Karabakh [NK], is becoming a member in the Customs Union [CU]. We [Armenia] say that NK is an independent republic yet act as the guarantor of NKR’s security. I am of the view that Armenia should be where Russia is, and Karabakh, where Armenia is,” the CPU leader noted. 

He stressed, however, that under the created conditions Armenia cannot demand that Karabakh be registered together with Armenia as a Eurasian Union member, since Armenia and Karabakh are not considered one country.

“It seems to me that there will be problems associated with it in the future, but they are solvable, and Russia is obligated to appropriately resolve these problems,” Tachat Sargsyan added.

The treaty on the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU) 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.