{"id":172834,"date":"2012-04-03T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T09:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=172834"},"modified":"2012-04-03T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T09:38:32","slug":"what-message-did-russias-foreign-minister-bring-to-armenia-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/04\/03\/what-message-did-russias-foreign-minister-bring-to-armenia-opinion.html","title":{"rendered":"What Message did Russia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Bring to Armenia? Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from the discussions that were <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mfa.am\/en\/press-releases\/item\/2012\/04\/02\/vis_lavrov\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">officially announced<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> between the Armenian and Russian parties, an important message related to the Eurasian Union was heard in talks Monday between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and high-ranking Armenian officials, electoral and political strategist Armen Badalyan told Epress.am, commenting on Lavrov&#8217;s Apr. 2 visit to Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, the Russian foreign minister had said that the doors of the Eurasian economic union proposed by Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin are open to Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Armenian authorities soon will be confronted with the question of making a choice between the Eurasian Union and the European Union \u2014 independent of who will be at the head of [Armenia&#8217;s] government,&#8221; Badalyan said.<\/p>\n<p>This issue, in the analyst&#8217;s opinion, will become more pointed after the May 6, 2012 parliamentary election and the 2013 presidential election in Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>Badalyan considers it notable that while Lavrov was meeting with students and lecturers, the US ambassador to Armenia was having a similar meeting with students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the initial stage it&#8217;s possible, of course, to actively cooperate with both the European Union and the Eurasian Union, but this is a serious geopolitical issue. We have to make a clear decision,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from the discussions that were officially announced between the Armenian and Russian parties, an important message related to the Eurasian Union was&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16235,40104,10782,10781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}