Commenting on the activities of the EU Mission in Armenia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin told RIA Novosti that there are grounds to believe that “the West is gathering intelligence on Russian facilities, as well as on all the states neighboring Armenia.”
“We have a negative opinion about the activities of the EU Mission in Armenia, which we have said many times,” Galuzin noted.
According to him, “the aim of the European Union is obvious: an attempt to gain a foothold in the region against the interests of the traditional partners and neighbors of the South Caucasus states, i.e., Russia, Iran, and Turkey.”
“We cannot see any tangible results from the activities of the EU monitors,” the official said, adding that their presence has not prevented periodic escalations on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
“They send their reports directly to Brussels and do not provide them even to the Armenian side. There is every reason to believe that Western countries are collecting intelligence on Russian facilities, as well as on all the states neighboring Armenia,” Galuzin noted.
