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DISINFO: Armenia is being turned into a tool for implementing dangerous Western plans

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DISINFO: Armenia is being turned into a tool for implementing dangerous Western plans

SUMMARY

Washington, Brussels and Yerevan pretend to wonder why the Armenia-EU-US high-level meeting on April 5 is causing so many “concerns.”

Before the eyes of the whole world, Armenia is being turned into an instrument for the implementation of extremely dangerous plans of the collective West.

It is claimed that the meeting was not directed against any third party. Such events cause concern in Russia, because representatives of the US and EU directly tell our partners that their main focus is exclusively against Russia. That's exactly what they say, in plain text.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative depicting Western countries as trying to encircle Russia, pursuing deliberate anti-Russian policies, fostering aggressive Russophobia, and characterising Armenia as a puppet state of the West.

This claim is a reaction to the meeting between the EU, the US, and Armenia on April 5, 2024, attended by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU High Representative/Vice-President, Josep Borrell, Secretary of State of the US, Antony Blinken, USAID Administrator Samantha Power, and Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan. Read here and here.

Pro-Kremlin media promote the idea that Armenia is exclusively within Russia's zone of geopolitical dominance, and Russia has cautioned Yerevan that the West is trying to drive a wedge between Armenia and Russia.

Armenia has been a sovereign and independent state since 1991 when it proclaimed its independence from the former USSR. As a sovereign state, Armenia is free to decide its foreign policy and alliances.

"The high-level meeting is aimed at developing and deepening our existing relations and is not connected with relations with third countries. Any allegations about it being directed against anyone else are irrelevant, baseless and fictitious," this was stated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Armenia.

Before the meeting, the EU Lead Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano has clarified, that the meeting will have “a strictly bilateral focus” and will be on the economic resilience of Armenia and bilateral cooperation with this country, based on the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership between the EU and Armenia and in the context of the recently launched work on a new EU-Armenia Partnership Agenda.

See similar cases in our database: West wants to transform Armenia in a "new Ukraine" or an "anti-Russia;" Pashinyan is a Western tool to squeeze Russia out of the South Caucasus; CIA and MI6 changed power in Armenia in order to oust Russia from the region, Brussels wants to squeeze Russia out of the Caucasus, Armenia is under Anglo-American occupation, Armenia is under the control of the most anti-Russian transatlantic forces.

Disclaimer

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