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Aram Sargsyan: Unlike Customs Union, EU is established structure
Saturday, October 26, 2013
`Unlike the Customs Union, the European Union is an established
structure. Today we have to make a choice between two organizations:
we want to become part of one of them, and we are forced to join the
other,' the chairman of Republic Party Aram Sargsyan told journalists
at the founding congress of HHSh Party today, when commenting on
Armenia's foreign policy.
`I am against any coercion, especially coercion towards something that
has no future,' he noted.
Asked whether the decision on entry into the Customs Union can be
revoked, Aram Sargsyan said their party conducted negotiations with
several political forces and outlined maximum and minimum programs.
`The minimum program envisages doing everything so that Armenia will
not become a member of the senseless, unpromising Customs Union. By
the maximum program, we should take measures so that - if not through
the Vilnius summit, then later - Armenia and its younger generation
could be part of the EU and live according to European and fundamental
values,' Aram Sargsyan said.
When asked what position his brother Vazgen Sargsyan would take on
this issue, Aram Sargsyan replied that his brother always acted for
the benefit of Armenian statehood. `If you think he would accept
Armenia's decision on entry into the Customs Union, you are sadly
mistaken,' he said.
TODAY, 15:47
Aysor.am
Saturday, October 26, 2013
`Unlike the Customs Union, the European Union is an established
structure. Today we have to make a choice between two organizations:
we want to become part of one of them, and we are forced to join the
other,' the chairman of Republic Party Aram Sargsyan told journalists
at the founding congress of HHSh Party today, when commenting on
Armenia's foreign policy.
`I am against any coercion, especially coercion towards something that
has no future,' he noted.
Asked whether the decision on entry into the Customs Union can be
revoked, Aram Sargsyan said their party conducted negotiations with
several political forces and outlined maximum and minimum programs.
`The minimum program envisages doing everything so that Armenia will
not become a member of the senseless, unpromising Customs Union. By
the maximum program, we should take measures so that - if not through
the Vilnius summit, then later - Armenia and its younger generation
could be part of the EU and live according to European and fundamental
values,' Aram Sargsyan said.
When asked what position his brother Vazgen Sargsyan would take on
this issue, Aram Sargsyan replied that his brother always acted for
the benefit of Armenian statehood. `If you think he would accept
Armenia's decision on entry into the Customs Union, you are sadly
mistaken,' he said.
TODAY, 15:47
Aysor.am