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U.S. Ambassador-designate to Yerevan: Armenia is isolating itself from the international community

18 September 2014 13:27 (UTC +04:00)

Washington. Sevinj Osmangizi – APA. “Armenia is isolating itself from the international community by adopting some decisions,” U.S. Ambassador-designate to Armenia Richard Mills said it at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing, APA reports.

“While we have been clear about our disappointment over some of Armenia’s recent decisions, such as its vote in the UN General Assembly with Russia against upholding Ukraine’s sovereignty that put Armenia at odds with the overwhelming majority of the international community.

Armenia’s decision, in September 2013, to join the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union and to end its negotiations with the European Union on a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, served to emphasize the need to achieve our goals of decreasing Armenia’s regional isolation and bolstering its economic and security independence. This would give Yerevan greater ability to build economic and security relationships with a range of partners, including not only Russia, but its immediate neighbors, the EU, and the United States as well,” he said.

On 27 March 2014, during the discussion of the U.N. resolution affirming Ukraine's territorial integrity, Armenia supported Russia and it was one of the few countries that voted against the document. Including Azerbaijan, 100 countries voted for supporting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. 58 countries abstained. Only Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe voted against the resolution.