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59% OF ARMENIA'S POPULATION 'NATURALLY TEND TOWARD RUSSIA' - EXPERT
14:18 ~U 24.06.13
59% of Armenia's population is inclined to think that Armenia should
join various Russia-led alliances or, to be precise, Russia itself.
Moreover, with respect to independence, Armenia's population is showing
"a downward tendency" as compared with the first years of independence,
the political analyst Sergey Shakaryants told journalists on Monday
as he referred to poll results presented by Aram Navasardyan, Director
of the Gallup International Association Armenia office.
According to the results, Armenia is inclined toward the Customs Union.
"In 2007, more than one million signatures were gathered in favor
for Armenia joining the Russia-Belarus union. People displayed their
unwillingness to be independent," Shakaryants said.
Last April, the Gallup International Association conducted a poll
conducted in all the post-Soviet states, which involved 11,000
respondents. In Armenia, 61% of the respondents spoke in favor of the
Customs Union, 26% were indifferent and 4% did not approve of the idea.
With respect to Nagorno-Karabakh's involvement in integration,
specifically in European integration, the expert said: "We will be
prohibited from conducting free trade with Nagorno-Karabakh. Even if
Russia may ignore the practice, the European Union will never do."
The economist Samvel Avagyan objected that free trade agreements
never prevent trade with third countries, and joining the Customs
Union will be the only obstacles. Shakaryants responded that "a third
country must not be an unrecognized one."
Armenian News - Tert.am
14:18 ~U 24.06.13
59% of Armenia's population is inclined to think that Armenia should
join various Russia-led alliances or, to be precise, Russia itself.
Moreover, with respect to independence, Armenia's population is showing
"a downward tendency" as compared with the first years of independence,
the political analyst Sergey Shakaryants told journalists on Monday
as he referred to poll results presented by Aram Navasardyan, Director
of the Gallup International Association Armenia office.
According to the results, Armenia is inclined toward the Customs Union.
"In 2007, more than one million signatures were gathered in favor
for Armenia joining the Russia-Belarus union. People displayed their
unwillingness to be independent," Shakaryants said.
Last April, the Gallup International Association conducted a poll
conducted in all the post-Soviet states, which involved 11,000
respondents. In Armenia, 61% of the respondents spoke in favor of the
Customs Union, 26% were indifferent and 4% did not approve of the idea.
With respect to Nagorno-Karabakh's involvement in integration,
specifically in European integration, the expert said: "We will be
prohibited from conducting free trade with Nagorno-Karabakh. Even if
Russia may ignore the practice, the European Union will never do."
The economist Samvel Avagyan objected that free trade agreements
never prevent trade with third countries, and joining the Customs
Union will be the only obstacles. Shakaryants responded that "a third
country must not be an unrecognized one."
Armenian News - Tert.am