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  • EURASEC Membership Will Hamper Armenia's Integration With Europe

    EURASEC MEMBERSHIP WILL HAMPER ARMENIA'S INTEGRATION WITH EUROPE

    Yerevan, August 22. ArmInfo. EURASEC membership will hamper Armenia's
    integration with Europe, said to ArmInfo correspondent political
    scientist Sergey Sarkisian, member of the SPECTRUM center.

    To the opinion of the analyzer, delaying the talks with the WTO Russia
    enhanced its activity in EURASEC. The latter, being founded in 2000,
    provides establishment free trade regime and single tax tariff between
    its member states. It also requires its members to make agree their
    programs with the WTO. S. Sarkisian said that in spite of all critics,
    EURASEC in the most progressive of all organization of the post-Soviet
    area. The last EURASEC summit made a decision to establish a Customs
    Treaty of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, which later can be joined
    by the rest of EURASEC members. Mr. Sarkisian said that membership in
    both WTO and EURASEC is possible due to applying the loss compensation
    mechanism. The political scientist emphasized the decision of the
    last summit about creating a unified energy market. Unification of
    transport and energy carriers tariffs and including in its structure
    Ukraine and Uzbekistan will provide EURASEC the opportunity of becoming
    the heir of CIS. He did not exclude the opportunity of merging EURASEC
    and CIS into one.

    To the opinion of Sergey Sarkisian the EURASEC will permit
    to establish much higher preferences for energy than bilateral
    partner agreements. He considers that this organization provides
    Russia a brilliant opportunity of starting the integration of the
    post-Soviet states into a single organization with political and
    military implication and an essential economic background. Taking into
    consideration all the abovementioned facts Armenia, Armenia cannot
    remain just a spectator in EURASEC, being an active member of the
    CSTO. On the other hand the EURASEC membership may hamper Armenia's
    integration in EU, that is why the Armenian diplomacy must use all
    its skill to find the balance between the West and the EURASEC.
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