Pashinyan explained why he is going to EAEU meeting of  Intergovernmental Council, and not first vice- premier Mirzoyan

ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan dismissed the rumors in the media and social networks as to why he is traveling to the meeting of the EAEU  Intergovernmental Council at the level of the heads of government in St. Petersburg, rather than the first deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan.

As Pashinyan wrote on his Facebook page, on July 26-27 he will be on  a working visit to St. Petersburg to participate in the meeting of  the EAEC Intergovernmental Council. He stressed that he decided to  personally participate in the meeting, so as not to create problems  in the work of the Eurasian Union. As Pashinyan notes, the legal  regulation of the work of the Intergovernmental Council of the EAEU  has not yet been brought into line with the new Constitution of  Armenia, according to which the prime minister is the head of the  country, and the first vice-premier has the status of the head of the  Cabinet of the countries with the presidential form of government.

"If I do not take part in the work of the Council of Prime Ministers,  decisions cannot be made." But even during the "velvet revolution," I  stated that our goal is not to paralyze the work of the EAEU, but, on  the contrary, to make it more effective our participation in this  organization. Therefore I decided to go to St.  Petersburg, "the  prime minister explained.

Meanwhile, after the constitutional changes in the RA, the Prime  Minister, as the head of state, is involved in the work of the EAEU  Economic Economic Council - in the format of the leaders of the  countries, this issue is solved de jure. And at the prime ministerial  level, the first deputy prime minister was to take part in the  meetings. However, according to mass media information, the  party-organizer expressed support for the participation in the event  of the Prime Minister of Armenia as the head of the Cabinet, as other  countries of the EAEU participate in the meeting at the level of the  heads of government.

In the northern capital on July 26-27, under the chairmanship of  Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a regular meeting of the  Eurasian intergovernmental council will be held. It will be attended  by the premieres of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The  heads of the governments of the member states of the Eurasian  Economic Union will discuss the issues of digital development of the  states of the Eurasian Economic Union, cooperation in energy and  transport, industrial cooperation and customs cooperation, and  improvement of the regulatory and legal framework of the EAEU.