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FIRST OMBUDSWOMAN: ARMENIA TO TAKE NO ADVANTAGES OF INTEGRATION PROCESSES, IF COUNTRY RUN IMPROPERLY
YEREVAN, September 19. /ARKA/. Larisa Alaverdyan, a former ombudswoman
of the country, commenting today Armenia's decision to join the Customs
Union, said not a single integration process will give benefit to
Armenia, if the country is run improperly.
Armenian and Russian presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin,
made a joint statement on September 3, after they met in Moscow. It
has become known from the statement that Armenia has decided to join
the Customs Union and it intends to take part in formation of Eurasian
Economic Union in the future. The announcement came as Armenia was
poised to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union.
European officials find combination of membership in both unions
impossible.
"Independence is a hard burden of responsibility, which our political
elite doesn't stand," Alaverdyan said. "Mismanagement and disability
of our country's leadership use all the advantages of a sovereign
state will leave us without any benefit."
In her opinion, membership in any union implies handover of a part of
the country's sovereignty to other institutions for a certain period
of time and on particular conditions, Novosti-Armenia reports.
"These conditions are an absolute proportionality and equality of the
parties, and this is doubtful in terms of the Customs Union," she said.
She said protest sentiments in Armenia and objections to the country
authorities' decision to join the Customs Union show that people here
have a certain idea of disadvantages of Eurasian integration, but knows
about European integration risks not so much.----0--- - See more at:
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YEREVAN, September 19. /ARKA/. Larisa Alaverdyan, a former ombudswoman
of the country, commenting today Armenia's decision to join the Customs
Union, said not a single integration process will give benefit to
Armenia, if the country is run improperly.
Armenian and Russian presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin,
made a joint statement on September 3, after they met in Moscow. It
has become known from the statement that Armenia has decided to join
the Customs Union and it intends to take part in formation of Eurasian
Economic Union in the future. The announcement came as Armenia was
poised to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union.
European officials find combination of membership in both unions
impossible.
"Independence is a hard burden of responsibility, which our political
elite doesn't stand," Alaverdyan said. "Mismanagement and disability
of our country's leadership use all the advantages of a sovereign
state will leave us without any benefit."
In her opinion, membership in any union implies handover of a part of
the country's sovereignty to other institutions for a certain period
of time and on particular conditions, Novosti-Armenia reports.
"These conditions are an absolute proportionality and equality of the
parties, and this is doubtful in terms of the Customs Union," she said.
She said protest sentiments in Armenia and objections to the country
authorities' decision to join the Customs Union show that people here
have a certain idea of disadvantages of Eurasian integration, but knows
about European integration risks not so much.----0--- - See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/first_ombudswoman_armenia_to_take_no_advantages_of _integration_processes_if_country_run_improperly/#sthash.npQG8AfR.dpuf