ArmInfo: Offiical Brussels warns Armenia again

Yerevan, March 18. ArmInfo. 

Official Brussels again warns Armenia of impossibility of combining participation in Russia's Customs Union and the EU Deep of Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement, Deputy Head of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs Elmar Brok said in an exclusive interview with Radio Liberty Armenia. 

 

He said that these two agreements contradict each other. EU cannot sign a DCFTA with a country that is a member of Russia's Customs Union. It is impossible legally. Armenia and other Eastern Partnership member-countries must chose between the two structures, he said. 

Asked what if Armenia decides to join the Customs Union initiated by Russia, Elmar Brok said that EU's relations with it will be the same as with Russia.

 

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