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    BABY STEP?: FOREIGN PARTY LEADERS MEET WITH ARMENIAN PEERS CONCERNING EURASIAN UNION

    POLITICS | 14.11.12 | 15:03

    RA PM Tigran Sargsyan receives representatives of political forces
    involved in Eurasian inter-party consultations

    By SIRANUYSH GEVORGYAN
    ArmeniaNow reporter

    Interparty discussions in Yerevan devoted to the idea of the Eurasian
    Union have skipped the attention of mass media, despite the fact that
    representatives of Russia's, the Ukraine's and Kazakhstan's ruling
    parties have had separate meetings with the Armenian prime minister
    and a number of local lawmakers.

    Representatives of Russia's Yedinaya Russia (United Russia), the
    Ukraine's Party of Regions and Kazakhstan's Nur Otan, parliament
    of Belarus, as well as Armenia's ruling Republican and second most
    powerful Prosperous Armenia (PAP) parties took part in the November
    12-13 discussions. And while Yerevan was hosting these meetings,
    Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan was in Paris meeting his French
    counterpart and other high-ranking officials - this fact has stirred
    speculations that he is reluctant to take part in what's aimed at
    bringing to life Russian president Vladimir Putin's brainchild.

    Among the Armenian political forces PAP is the most supportive of the
    Eurasian Union's idea. As for the authorities, they swing from positive
    to negative assessments when speaking about entering the Customs Union
    (free trade zone) which is the basis of the Eurasian Union.

    Although the interparty meetings have not been largely covered by the
    press, some rather interesting and important statements made during
    them can be singled out. In particular, on Monday Andrey Klimov,
    Yedinaya Russia's head of foreign relations, had a meeting with
    vice-speaker of the Armenian parliament Hermine Naghdalyan, as well
    as a number of Republican and PAP MPs. Klimov said that Russia highly
    appreciates its cooperation and dialogue with Armenia, as well as
    partner relations and position on a number of international structures
    and platforms. Reflecting on the Eurasian Union he said respective
    discussions would soon be held in Brussels. Klimov stressed that
    Russia in this issue not only would be guided by its own interests,
    but also "defend its strategic partners' interests".

    On Tuesday Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received the interparty
    meeting participants.

    "Our countries function in the framework of CIS, have similar
    challenges, and we have to overcome them together. From that
    perspective political cooperation on a party level can also contribute
    greatly to the development and implementation of different projects,"
    said Sargsyan.

    Russian Duma vice-speaker Sergey Zheleznyak, who is also the Deputy
    Secretary General of Yedinaya Russia, said that the interparty
    discussions hosted by Armenia had laid a strong foundation for
    continuing interparty cooperation as well as development and
    implementation of various projects.

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