YEREVAN. – Armenia’s opposition Heritage Party Board Secretary, analyst  Stiopa Safaryan does not believe that President Sargsyan was aware that, in Astana, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev was to read a letter by Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev.    

“I don’t think that they [the Armenian side] were aware of the existence of Nazarbayev’s letter. At least, such a matter was not expected to be discussed. Armenia was not aware beforehand of what happened in Astana. First, Serzh Sargsyan looked as if he hardly knew about it in advance,” Safaryan said at a press conference on Wednesday.

Heritage’s member stated the aforesaid while commenting on Sargsyan’s remarks that the Armenian side knew beforehand about Nazarbayev’s statement.

Ruling Republican Party of Armenia National Assembly Faction member Levon Martirosyan, on the other hand, noted that he believes in Serzh Sargsyan.

“If he said that they knew, then he knew. There is nothing here not to believe in,” he 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.