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EUROPE WILL OFFER ARMENIA TO JOIN NATO
Europe has two options: either to convene the Eastern Partnership
summit not in November, but say, in August, or to invite the parties
to Eastern Partnership to join NATO. Otherwise, not only Armenia but
also Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia may appear in the Customs Union
and CSTO as observers.
Yesterday, minister of foreign affairs of Lithuania hinted about this
during the EU session of foreign ministers saying that it is necessary
to decide about the Eastern Partnership and do everything to ensure
Ukraine signs the Association Agreement, and Armenia, Moldova and
Georgia initialize it in November. Actually, the minister is alarming
about the threat to the initialization of the agreement.
Armenia is evidently taking up last efforts to resist to Russia's
pressure, and not only Armenia. Yesterday, Sergey Narishkin said that
Ukraine is offered the observer status in CSTO.
The West keeps saying about the necessity of diversification as a means
to eliminate Russia's monopoly and open ex-Soviet countries for the
world. However, diversification is meant only in terms of economy for
now. But most likely, it is time to speak about the diversification
of security. It is not ruled out that ex-Soviet countries will be
proposed a format of Association with NATO.
Europe and the U.S., after the signing of the global economic agreement
on the creation of Euro-Atlantic free trade area, will become a
unified space. And if Armenia signs the free trade agreement with EU
and becomes a member of the Euro-Atlantic economic zone, the issue
on its membership to the CSTO will arise.
Attempts to integrate post-Soviet countries into the Western military
political space have been made in Georgia. Russia managed to keep
Georgia back from NATO at the cost of a five-day war, acquiring the
status of an aggressor, expensive absorption of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia, which have become the tooth which aches all the time. But
the war in Georgia was a lesson for both the West and Russia.
Now everything is different, but still it has never gone so far and
the question of choosing between the West and Russia has never been
so serious. In Armenia, this choice is often tried to be presented as
a matter of taste. But this is not the case: there may be different
views on what color is more beautiful - red or green. But there can
hardly be two opinions as to which is better - Lada or Mercedes.
Naira Hayrumyan 11:56 26/06/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30282
Europe has two options: either to convene the Eastern Partnership
summit not in November, but say, in August, or to invite the parties
to Eastern Partnership to join NATO. Otherwise, not only Armenia but
also Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia may appear in the Customs Union
and CSTO as observers.
Yesterday, minister of foreign affairs of Lithuania hinted about this
during the EU session of foreign ministers saying that it is necessary
to decide about the Eastern Partnership and do everything to ensure
Ukraine signs the Association Agreement, and Armenia, Moldova and
Georgia initialize it in November. Actually, the minister is alarming
about the threat to the initialization of the agreement.
Armenia is evidently taking up last efforts to resist to Russia's
pressure, and not only Armenia. Yesterday, Sergey Narishkin said that
Ukraine is offered the observer status in CSTO.
The West keeps saying about the necessity of diversification as a means
to eliminate Russia's monopoly and open ex-Soviet countries for the
world. However, diversification is meant only in terms of economy for
now. But most likely, it is time to speak about the diversification
of security. It is not ruled out that ex-Soviet countries will be
proposed a format of Association with NATO.
Europe and the U.S., after the signing of the global economic agreement
on the creation of Euro-Atlantic free trade area, will become a
unified space. And if Armenia signs the free trade agreement with EU
and becomes a member of the Euro-Atlantic economic zone, the issue
on its membership to the CSTO will arise.
Attempts to integrate post-Soviet countries into the Western military
political space have been made in Georgia. Russia managed to keep
Georgia back from NATO at the cost of a five-day war, acquiring the
status of an aggressor, expensive absorption of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia, which have become the tooth which aches all the time. But
the war in Georgia was a lesson for both the West and Russia.
Now everything is different, but still it has never gone so far and
the question of choosing between the West and Russia has never been
so serious. In Armenia, this choice is often tried to be presented as
a matter of taste. But this is not the case: there may be different
views on what color is more beautiful - red or green. But there can
hardly be two opinions as to which is better - Lada or Mercedes.
Naira Hayrumyan 11:56 26/06/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30282