DISINFO: Brussels meeting is the next stage of geopolitical re-education of Armenia by the EU and the US
SUMMARY
The Brussels meeting is the next stage in the process of geopolitical re-education of the Republic of Armenia, and the systematic and consistent efforts in this direction undertaken by the EU and the US.
[...i]t fits into the broader context of various types of negotiations, both public and perhaps non-public, designed, firstly, to collapse Armenian-Russian economic ties.
Now we are talking about incorporating Armenia into the anti-Russian sanctions system of the collective West; this issue, of course, was considered in Brussels.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the belligerent West trying to encircle Russia, carrying out deliberately anti-Russian policies and aggressive Russophobia, and presenting Armenia as a puppet state that is used by the West against Russia.
Pro-Kremlin media promote the idea that Armenia and the Caucasus are 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. Read a similar case claiming that the West wants to tear Armenia away from Russia.
The claim is a reaction to the trilateral meeting between the EU, the US, and Armenia on April 5, 2024, where European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen together with the High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell hosted Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Read here and here.
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 the Republic of Armenia.
The EU Lead Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano said that the meeting has “a strictly bilateral focus” and will be on the economic resilience of Armenia and bilateral cooperation with this country, based on the CEPA between the EU and Armenia and in the context of the recently launched work on a new EU-Armenia Partnership Agenda.
See similar cases, claiming that Pashinyan turned Armenia into a NATO colony; West wants to transform Armenia into a "new Ukraine" or an "anti-Russia;" The West wants Armenia to lose its sovereignty; Pashinyan is a Western tool to squeeze Russia out of the South Caucasus; CIA and MI6 changed power in Armenia to oust Russia from the region; Armenia is under Anglo-American occupation; Armenia-US-EU meeting is attempt by the West to drag the South Caucasus into a geopolitical confrontation.