{"id":298428,"date":"2026-09-16T17:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=298428"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:41:04","slug":"lavrov-russia-has-no-desire-to-artificially-hinder-the-diversification-processes-announced-by-pashinyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/298428\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov: Russia has no desire to artificially hinder the diversification processes announced by Pashinyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>EU authorities will almost certainly deceive Yerevan regarding Armenia&rsquo;s European integration. This statement was made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov while speaking at the World Youth Festival.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As for the aspirations of Nikol Pashinyan&rsquo;s government to join the European Union, EU authorities could deceive them&mdash;and, I believe, almost certainly will. I do not see how Armenia could end up in the European Union, where countries like Turkey and Serbia have been waiting in line for decades,&rdquo; the Russian Foreign Minister noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lavrov, Russia has no desire to artificially influence Armenia&rsquo;s ability to choose its partners and paths of development, but it also does not intend to foot the bill for Armenia&rsquo;s preparations for EU membership; therefore, Yerevan &ldquo;needs to make up its mind.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have no desire to artificially hinder the diversification processes announced by Prime Minister Pashinyan,&rdquo; the head of Russian diplomacy emphasized.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU authorities will almost certainly deceive Yerevan regarding Armenia&rsquo;s European integration. This statement was made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov while speaking at the World Youth Festival. &ldquo;As for the aspirations of Nikol Pashinyan&rsquo;s government to join the European Union, EU authorities could deceive them&mdash;and, I believe, almost certainly will. I do not see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298429,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298428\/revisions\/298429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}