The Armenian Parliament has adopted a law on the country's intention to join the EU

The Armenian Parliament has adopted in the second and final reading a bill on the beginning of the process of the country's accession to the European Union. The document states that Armenia "expresses the will of the Armenian people, setting itself the task of making the republic a safe, secure, developed and prosperous country."

The initiator of the bill is the civil initiative "Platform of Democratic Forces", which managed to collect 60 thousand signatures necessary for submitting it to the deputies for consideration.

Earlier, the country's government approved the bill. Now, after its approval by the parliament, the issue of further accession to the European Union will be put to a referendum.

The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that it sees in the EU's desire to consolidate its influence in Armenia an exclusively geopolitical background, far from the interests of real normalization of relations in the Transcaucasus.

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