ARMENIA CAN NOT JOIN EU IF IT JOINS EURASIAN UNION: GERMAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST
/ARKA/
November 25, 2011
YERVAN
YEREVAN, November 25. / ARKA /. Armenia will not be able to seek
EU membership if it joins the Eurasian Union, a professor of Jen
University in Germany, Georgy Khubua, said yesterday in Yerevan.
"In my personal opinion, the Eurasian Union will be an unhealthy
association and a kind of a new attempt of resuscitation of the former
Soviet Union," Khubua said at a news conference.
"Either the European Union, or that modified form of the Soviet Union",
he said.
The project of the Eurasian Union implies creation of union of
independent states with common political, economic, military, customs,
arts and cultural space. Last Friday, in Moscow Presidents of Russia,
Belarus and Kazakhstan, signed a roadmap for the integration process,
whose ultimate aim is the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union.
They were presented an agreement on the Eurasian Economic Commission
(EEC) - a new supra-national authority that will manage all the
integration processes.
This body is expected to be headed by Russian Industry and Trade
Minister Viktor Khristenko, who noted that the most likely candidates
for accession to the EEC are Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, which along
with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are in the Eurasian Economic
Community.
From: Baghdasarian
/ARKA/
November 25, 2011
YERVAN
YEREVAN, November 25. / ARKA /. Armenia will not be able to seek
EU membership if it joins the Eurasian Union, a professor of Jen
University in Germany, Georgy Khubua, said yesterday in Yerevan.
"In my personal opinion, the Eurasian Union will be an unhealthy
association and a kind of a new attempt of resuscitation of the former
Soviet Union," Khubua said at a news conference.
"Either the European Union, or that modified form of the Soviet Union",
he said.
The project of the Eurasian Union implies creation of union of
independent states with common political, economic, military, customs,
arts and cultural space. Last Friday, in Moscow Presidents of Russia,
Belarus and Kazakhstan, signed a roadmap for the integration process,
whose ultimate aim is the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union.
They were presented an agreement on the Eurasian Economic Commission
(EEC) - a new supra-national authority that will manage all the
integration processes.
This body is expected to be headed by Russian Industry and Trade
Minister Viktor Khristenko, who noted that the most likely candidates
for accession to the EEC are Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, which along
with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are in the Eurasian Economic
Community.
From: Baghdasarian