"Publication". Armenia has been put up for auction

"Hraparak" newspaper writes: "The Pashinyan-Von der Leyen-Blinken meeting scheduled for tomorrow in Brussels will shed light on whether Armenia will submit an application to become a candidate for EU membership, will it take the path of Europe, or will it continue to maintain the shaky status quo between Russia and Europe?" In the KP, they are especially impatiently waiting for the results of that meeting, after which they will meet with Nikol Pashinyan and come to a final conclusion.

The point is that during the last closed meeting of the prime minister and the government legislators, the team once again expressed its position that it is not worth going on an adventure and submitting an application for EU membership: our economy is highly dependent on Russia, and in Russia this "betrayal" is hard to bear, they are even opinions. heard that the uncalculated bid could cost us not only the Zangezur corridor, but also the whole of Syunik. But in the end they came to the conclusion that concrete guarantees should be demanded from the West in the form of serious financial support.

They even calculated that the West should allocate 2-3 billion dollars to Armenia for at least 7-8 years, in order to diversify our economy, separate from Russia, and push Russia out of the region. In other words, this "betrayal" has a price, and it is 3 billion dollars a year.

We were told that in response to the concerns of his teammates, Pashinyan said that such assurances were not given to him, but he conveyed to the narrow staff of the CP that they seemed to agree to provide financial support. At least in the amount of about a billion dollars."