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SERZH SARGSYAN HAS TO BE CONVINCING
HAKOB BADALYAN
Lragir.am
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments22789.html
29/07/2011
During the joint press conference with the President of Poland
Bronislaw Komorowski, Serzh Sargsyan, at the request of the Pole
reporters, dwelt on his expectations from the EU Eastern Partnership
Summit to be held in Warsaw, and noted that he expects a differentiated
approach.
Armenia should consistently promote this approach in its relations
with the European Union. The European policy can be effective in the
South Caucasus only if it is differentiated. There is an opinion that
the European Union considers the Caucasus a single area and views
its relations with the Caucasian countries on this platform.
But this prism is evident to be inefficient which is proven by the
slowness of the European policy and its ineffective course in the
South Caucasus. If Europe viewed the countries of the South Caucasus
separately and adopted a separate tactical and strategic approach,
it would ensure progress of the general European policy and its
effectiveness in the South Caucasus more than viewing the region as
a single area and determining the development of one country by the
development of the other one.
There is a long range of issues in the Caucasus, and if viewed as a
single area, obstacles and barriers will multiply. In case of separate
work with each country, the problems of relationships with one another
are eliminated, making the work of the European policy becomes easier.
But the Armenian authorities should not only demand, appeal or urge
such an approach from the European Union. They should show with the
help of their activities that this approach is justified and will be
effective. In other words, Armenia should accelerate or set to the
genuine course toward the European system of values. Europe should see
that a differentiated approach is really justified, and the countries,
Armenia in this case, are sincere in their aspirations and expectations
from differentiated work.
Armenia has not expressed enough sincerity yet, and in Armenia,
European values are mostly declarative and they are not the genuine
axis or generator of politics.
From: A. Papazian
HAKOB BADALYAN
Lragir.am
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments22789.html
29/07/2011
During the joint press conference with the President of Poland
Bronislaw Komorowski, Serzh Sargsyan, at the request of the Pole
reporters, dwelt on his expectations from the EU Eastern Partnership
Summit to be held in Warsaw, and noted that he expects a differentiated
approach.
Armenia should consistently promote this approach in its relations
with the European Union. The European policy can be effective in the
South Caucasus only if it is differentiated. There is an opinion that
the European Union considers the Caucasus a single area and views
its relations with the Caucasian countries on this platform.
But this prism is evident to be inefficient which is proven by the
slowness of the European policy and its ineffective course in the
South Caucasus. If Europe viewed the countries of the South Caucasus
separately and adopted a separate tactical and strategic approach,
it would ensure progress of the general European policy and its
effectiveness in the South Caucasus more than viewing the region as
a single area and determining the development of one country by the
development of the other one.
There is a long range of issues in the Caucasus, and if viewed as a
single area, obstacles and barriers will multiply. In case of separate
work with each country, the problems of relationships with one another
are eliminated, making the work of the European policy becomes easier.
But the Armenian authorities should not only demand, appeal or urge
such an approach from the European Union. They should show with the
help of their activities that this approach is justified and will be
effective. In other words, Armenia should accelerate or set to the
genuine course toward the European system of values. Europe should see
that a differentiated approach is really justified, and the countries,
Armenia in this case, are sincere in their aspirations and expectations
from differentiated work.
Armenia has not expressed enough sincerity yet, and in Armenia,
European values are mostly declarative and they are not the genuine
axis or generator of politics.
From: A. Papazian