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MILAN CABRNOCH: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT'S RESOLUTION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ARMENIA'S DECISION TO JOIN CUSTOMS UNION
by Tatevik Shahunyan
ARMINFO
Thursday, October 31, 17:25
The European Parliament's resolution on the European Neighborhood
Policy has nothing to do with Armenia's decision to join the Customs
Union. Nor does it imply any change in the European Parliament's
attitude towards the country, Co-Chairman of the Armenia-EU
Parliamentary Cooperation Commission Milan Cabrnoch said in an
interview with ArmInfo.
When asked about his personal attitude towards the provision concerning
Nagorno-Karabakh, Cabrnoch said that the resolution was adopted by a
majority of the European parliamentarians and was an official document
of the European Union.
In an earlier interview with ArmInfo, the Armenian Co-Chair of the
Armenia-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Commission Samvel Farmanyan said
that the provisions of the resolution ran counter to the European
Union's official stance on the Karabakh conflict, as well as to
the whole logic of the Karabakh peace process in the OSCE Minsk
Group format. "I remember no other resolution to contain so rough
and unilateral assessments divorced from the reality. Certainly,
here we cannot neglect the circumstance that the adoption of this
resolution reflects the situational approach in relation to the
latest developments (Armenia's decision to join the Customs Union -
editor's note). I think our partners in the European Parliament are
guided by wrong considerations", he said.
At the plenary session of the European Parliament on 23 October,
a draft resolution on the European Neighborhood was adopted.
Azerbaijani media outlets report that in the paragraph #16, the
resolution "denounces the occupation by one country of the Eastern
Partnership of the territory of another and states that the settlement
of Armenian Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh Conflict should comply with
UN Security Council Resolutions." The document "recalls its position
that the occupation by one country of the Eastern Partnership of
the territory of another violates the fundamental principles and
objectives of the Eastern Partnership and that the resolution of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should comply with UN Security Council
resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of 1993 and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group Basic Principles,
enshrined in the L'Aquila joint statement of 10 July 2009".
From: Baghdasarian
by Tatevik Shahunyan
ARMINFO
Thursday, October 31, 17:25
The European Parliament's resolution on the European Neighborhood
Policy has nothing to do with Armenia's decision to join the Customs
Union. Nor does it imply any change in the European Parliament's
attitude towards the country, Co-Chairman of the Armenia-EU
Parliamentary Cooperation Commission Milan Cabrnoch said in an
interview with ArmInfo.
When asked about his personal attitude towards the provision concerning
Nagorno-Karabakh, Cabrnoch said that the resolution was adopted by a
majority of the European parliamentarians and was an official document
of the European Union.
In an earlier interview with ArmInfo, the Armenian Co-Chair of the
Armenia-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Commission Samvel Farmanyan said
that the provisions of the resolution ran counter to the European
Union's official stance on the Karabakh conflict, as well as to
the whole logic of the Karabakh peace process in the OSCE Minsk
Group format. "I remember no other resolution to contain so rough
and unilateral assessments divorced from the reality. Certainly,
here we cannot neglect the circumstance that the adoption of this
resolution reflects the situational approach in relation to the
latest developments (Armenia's decision to join the Customs Union -
editor's note). I think our partners in the European Parliament are
guided by wrong considerations", he said.
At the plenary session of the European Parliament on 23 October,
a draft resolution on the European Neighborhood was adopted.
Azerbaijani media outlets report that in the paragraph #16, the
resolution "denounces the occupation by one country of the Eastern
Partnership of the territory of another and states that the settlement
of Armenian Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh Conflict should comply with
UN Security Council Resolutions." The document "recalls its position
that the occupation by one country of the Eastern Partnership of
the territory of another violates the fundamental principles and
objectives of the Eastern Partnership and that the resolution of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should comply with UN Security Council
resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of 1993 and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group Basic Principles,
enshrined in the L'Aquila joint statement of 10 July 2009".
From: Baghdasarian