Putin Warns Armenia Could Face Higher Energy Prices If It Leaves EAEU | APT

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]investment.

[00:00:03]In accordance with the EAEU bank data, 4.9 billion dollars of investment were made into Armenia. 86% of those came from Russia.

[00:00:22]And we are not taking into consideration here the capitals that originated from Russia. Not They're not coming directly from Russia, but representatives of the Russian business structures, they are investing into the Armenian economy.

[00:00:40]But, well, 86% Actually, the big the the number is much bigger.

[00:00:48]And the European partners promised to invest 2.5 billion euro.

[00:00:54]Who's going to invest? When are they going to invest? And still, 2.5 is less than 4.9 for the Armenian transport operators is yet another That's yet another field, separate field. And then we will have to raise tariffs for the railway shipping, because currently they are enjoying the domestic Russian domestic tariffs. We will have to raise them to the level of the CIS.

[00:01:26]Well, and of course, raising the energy prices as well.

[00:01:30]There is not going to be any preferences in this regard. The state visit We are happy with this visit because we Well, we drew a line because we discussed what was accomplished. We have a record high trade turnover.

[00:01:51]And we have good growth trends. So, we discussed the priorities in our cooperation in all the priority areas and we discussed all the areas of our cooperation.

[00:02:09]And leading role here is with the humanitarian cooperation because maintaining good neighborly relations basically familiar relations between our states, between our nations is of utmost importance because it creates the long-term important level of trust between the two states and the people.

[00:02:39]I told Prime Minister Pashinyan, he can confirm this. I told him everything that's good for Armenia for Armenians will be acceptable for Russians. Do whatever you deem necessary if it's in the interest of the Armenian people.

[00:02:58]You are the leader. You are responsible for making these decisions, so it'll be however you say it is.

[00:03:07]It is not going to ruin the humanitarian ties between us. It is not going to ruin the political ties between us.

[00:03:15]We are speaking about merely economic things, everything that could be calculated. We need to It needs to be calculated.

[00:03:24]It needs to be looked into, then the decision should be made. Like I said, the crisis in Ukraine started with the attempt to bring Ukraine to the EU and we were not against this.

[00:03:40]We simply said that, for example, federal sanitary norms are different. It means the access to the markets in Russia or back in the Soviet Union.

[00:03:51]And it means also the Eurasian Economic Union countries, the federal countries the phytosanitary norms are much stricter than they have in Europe. About Someone told me just before I entered here, a drone entered the Romanian airspace. No, I don't know what drone.

[00:04:08]So, please tell me what's the information in the media now.

[00:04:14]A drone hit a residential building in Romania.

[00:04:17]And they say it's a Russian drone. Who says that it's a Russian drone?

[00:04:22]Many people. Many people means no one.

[00:04:24]Precisely who? Names.

[00:04:28]Ursula von der Leyen.

[00:04:32]Well, she didn't go to Romania. She didn't investigate. She didn't look at the remnants of the drone. No one can say where a flying vehicle came from before they run a forensing analysis because um drones Ukrainian drones enter Finnish airspace, Polish airspace, the Baltic countries airspace. Ukrainian drones do that. And the first reaction was exactly the same like they have now in Romania.

[00:05:07]"Russians are hitting us." They were saying. And then they found out that these drones had nothing to do with the Russia. Russia had nothing to do with these drones.

[00:05:19]They came from Ukraine.