Armenia’s decision to join customs union was calculated and balanced –prime minister

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Armenia's decision to join the Russia-led Customs Union was calculated and balanced, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said today in Russia’s St. Peterbsurg at a meeting with the Russian transport minister Maxim Sokolov.

Armenia’s decision to join customs union was calculated and balanced –prime minister

YEREVAN, October 1. / ARKA /. Armenia's decision to join the Russia-led Customs Union was calculated and balanced, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said today in Russia’s St. Peterbsurg at a meeting with the Russian transport minister Maxim Sokolov.

Sargsyan traveled to the Russian city to attend a session of the joint Russian-Armenian intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation. Sargsyan and Sokolov are the Armenian and Russian co-chairmen of the commission.

"No one invited us to join the Customs Union. Armenia’s decision in favor of the Customs Union was calculated and balanced," Sargsyan said.

According to him, on the one hand this decision is backed by the historical experience and on the other –hand by a cold calculation, aimed at creating an environment that is fully consistent with the national interests of Armenia. He added that integration associations should be formed for economic not political purposes. -0-

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