YEREVAN. – The decision on Armenia’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) was a prompt of the expected benefits.

Government Chief of Staff-Minister Davit Harutyunyan told the aforementioned to reporters on Wednesday, and in response to a query on whether the expected risks from Armenia’s forthcoming EEU accession are reflected on the 2015 State Budget draft.

“When Armenia officially joins the EEU, the consequences will be taken into account also on paper.

“And if you are asking whether the government has examined these factors in advance, yes, they were examined, and earlier than starting to prepare the EEC accession roadmap,” Harutyunyan stressed.

Responding to the question on the consequences which the sanctions imposed against Russia may have on Armenia, the minister noted that even though it is impossible to 100-percent predict these consequences, the respective advantages which Armenia may obtain are at the basis of the decision on the EEC accession.

Armenia signed, on October 10 in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk, the treaty on accession to the EEU, whose founding members are Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Armenia is slated to become a formal Eurasian Economic Union member on January 1, 2015.