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Full Screen Men’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzojan visiting Finnish colleague Elina Valtonen in Helsinki in NoveMberg. Archive photo. Photo: Seppo Samuli/Lehtikuva/AP/TT
Parliament in Armenia has voted to allow the country’s government to start the road to EU membership.
With 64 votes against 7, the government was manifested on Wednesday to start the “EU entry process”.
However, the road remains both long and complicated. In order for an Armenian application for membership to even be received by the EU, it is first required that the country be accepted by the EU as a “potential member country”, which has not yet happened.
Thereafter, the country needs to fulfill a wide range of tough legal, economic and political requirements to be admitted into the Union.