YEREVAN, May 5. /TASS/. Armenia would be glad to be admitted to the European Union, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the first Armenia-EU summit, which was held in Yerevan on May 5, 2026.
Speaking at a press conference following the summit, the Armenian prime minister called the event historic. Pashinyan also recalled that a law on joining the European Union, initiated by civil society, was adopted in Armenia last year.
"I believe this is a good and additional incentive to give new momentum to democratic and institutional reforms in general, so that Armenia can achieve the status of a country meeting European standards as soon as possible. This is our main intermediate goal, since we understand that no country can become a full member of the EU without meeting these standards. If we are admitted as full members of the EU, we will be glad and happy about it. If not, in any case we will find ourselves in a winning position, since the Republic of Armenia will be a country with European standards," the head of the Armenian government said.
He also acknowledged that the decision to admit a country to the EU is a political one, and that Brussels could at any moment say that the EU no longer wants to expand.
