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KAZAKHSTAN REFUSES TO LET ARMENIA IN CUSTOMS AND EURASIAN UNION
Azerbaijan Business Center
Dec 27 2013
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Armenia, which signed this week a roadmap for
accession to the Customs Union, can neither become a member of the
Customs Union nor enter into the Eurasian Union.
Azerbaijani sources say that Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
has stated immediately that today there is not any place for Armenia
in the Customs or the Eurasian Union.
"Nazarbayev explained his position with the fact that existence of
Armenia-Azerbaijan open conflict meets neither the spirit nor the
prospects of these unions. The Kazakh President believes in general
that the Customs Union will not be complete without Azerbaijan,"
an Azerbaijani source said.
Armenia also declares that it is ready to implement the road map for
six months, and already in May to join the Customs Union.
"Previously, the undesirability of Armenia's participation in the
union before it settles its conflict with Azerbaijan was stated by
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. Differences between the
members of the Customs Union on such a sensitive issue for Azerbaijan
matter as the Nagorno Karabakh conflict are not just encouraging fact,
but also an opportunity to reach a settlement of the conflict as soon
as possible. Today, many, if not all, will depend on the activity
and effectiveness of Azerbaijan's actions. We need to persuade Russia
and its President Vladimir Putin to take the right decision. If we're
lucky, then 2014 could be the year of liberation of Nagorno Karabakh
from Armenian occupation," the Azerbaijani source emphasized.
It should be noted that Armenia's reluctance to establish the official
border with the occupied Nagorno Karabakh and its seven surrounding
regions of Azerbaijan caused official Yerevan's refusal from signing
an association agreement with the EU.
Azerbaijan Business Center
Dec 27 2013
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Armenia, which signed this week a roadmap for
accession to the Customs Union, can neither become a member of the
Customs Union nor enter into the Eurasian Union.
Azerbaijani sources say that Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
has stated immediately that today there is not any place for Armenia
in the Customs or the Eurasian Union.
"Nazarbayev explained his position with the fact that existence of
Armenia-Azerbaijan open conflict meets neither the spirit nor the
prospects of these unions. The Kazakh President believes in general
that the Customs Union will not be complete without Azerbaijan,"
an Azerbaijani source said.
Armenia also declares that it is ready to implement the road map for
six months, and already in May to join the Customs Union.
"Previously, the undesirability of Armenia's participation in the
union before it settles its conflict with Azerbaijan was stated by
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. Differences between the
members of the Customs Union on such a sensitive issue for Azerbaijan
matter as the Nagorno Karabakh conflict are not just encouraging fact,
but also an opportunity to reach a settlement of the conflict as soon
as possible. Today, many, if not all, will depend on the activity
and effectiveness of Azerbaijan's actions. We need to persuade Russia
and its President Vladimir Putin to take the right decision. If we're
lucky, then 2014 could be the year of liberation of Nagorno Karabakh
from Armenian occupation," the Azerbaijani source emphasized.
It should be noted that Armenia's reluctance to establish the official
border with the occupied Nagorno Karabakh and its seven surrounding
regions of Azerbaijan caused official Yerevan's refusal from signing
an association agreement with the EU.