Putin will come to Armenia anyway

“It is impossible to solve the border problem; we will have to live as we are doing now – separately. What can we do? We can’t bring the sea towards us. We did not have physical borders with Tajiks and Turkmens either, but we lived together,” said Nikolay Rizhkov, member of the Russian Federal Assembly, during his visit to Yerevan.

Concerning the announcement of the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko saying that Armenia cannot join the Customs Union this year or next year as far as the conflict of Karabakh is not resolved he said, “Let Lukashenko do his job. Why is he interfering with another state? What else? Everyone knows that the conflict of Karabakh is not an issue that can be resolved tomorrow, and I do not know when it will be resolved.

You know the situation better than I do. That is why if we look at things that way, Armenia will not be able to integrate with the Customs Union. That’s it! Generally Lukashenko is a man of healthy thinking and I do not understand how he came to that.” Rizhkov said the issue of Karabakh conflict should not be connected with the Customs Union. He also said that Russian president Vladimir Putin would visit Armenia but he did not know yet what activities would happen during that visit. “I do not know. I know that he will visit Armenia, but I do not know what issues will be discussed,” said Rizhkov.