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Aram Sargsyan. "The cold war will end up in Russia's capitulation."
August 2 2014
"The problem has its original cause, the sanctions, which are used
against Russia, do we consider them justified or wrong and unfair? I
think they are justified. Russia has taken on the mission to become a
major geopolitical pole, to which it has neither economic, nor
democratic, demographic and legal rights and possibilities. In this
context, it has also involved Armenia and any sanction imposed to
Russia will have worse influence on Armenia than on Russia," said the
leader of the "Republic" party, Aram Sargsyan, to the question of
Aravot.am of what possible developments and consequences will the
Russian-American confrontation have in Armenia. Recall that yesterday,
the U.S. embassy in Armenia had released a message warning the RA
government and businesses that the partnership with Russia imposed
sanction officials and companies can be risky. This was followed by
Russian Embassy's answer to Armenia, "It is not appropriate for the
diplomatic mission to indicate to the authorities of the host country
with whom and how they should cooperate, especially using by using
poorly veiled threats in respect of the sovereign state. (...)We believe
that the business community of Armenia is also able to understand the
business issues and do not need others' suggestions. We express our
concern about American attempts to complicate the work of Russian
business in the Republic of Armenia. All Russian companies represented
on the territory of Armenia, including "VTB Armenia" bank and
"Areximbank", are under the jurisdiction of given country, make a
profit and pay taxes in Armenia and provide employment to the
significant part of the country population." "In the general context,
Armenia's economy will greatly suffer from it, starting from the
transfers coming to Armenia and ending with Russian enterprises that
were not making investments here and were operated and depreciated to
throw away and leave, and now, they will not operate them at all.
Unemployment and so on, which is very bad," said our interlocutor,
adding that with Eurasian Union, Russia considers itself an
alternative to European Union by raising a question, "What is the
alternative? The European Union is a democracy, human rights, free
judicial market system, competition in the economy, serious financing
of scientific resources. Which is Russia's alternative to it? Is your
democracy to have constantly the same life-president, corrupt judicial
system, monopolies in market economy and having oligarchs? We have to
make a choice in-between these two. There are many political parties,
including government and non-government, which see the development of
Armenia with the Russian path. There are forces that see the
development of Armenia beyond it, one of which is also the "Republic".
And what they say the main debate in the upcoming next or early
parliamentary or presidential elections will be among these forces and
around this idea." Pursuant to Aram Sargsyan, Armenia does not have
any opportunity to come out safe from this Russian-American conflict
in Armenia. To the question of how deep the process will go, our
interlocutor said, "I think this process of the Cold War, which has
begun will end up in Russia's capitulation."
Nelly GRIGORYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2014/08/02/166267/
August 2 2014
"The problem has its original cause, the sanctions, which are used
against Russia, do we consider them justified or wrong and unfair? I
think they are justified. Russia has taken on the mission to become a
major geopolitical pole, to which it has neither economic, nor
democratic, demographic and legal rights and possibilities. In this
context, it has also involved Armenia and any sanction imposed to
Russia will have worse influence on Armenia than on Russia," said the
leader of the "Republic" party, Aram Sargsyan, to the question of
Aravot.am of what possible developments and consequences will the
Russian-American confrontation have in Armenia. Recall that yesterday,
the U.S. embassy in Armenia had released a message warning the RA
government and businesses that the partnership with Russia imposed
sanction officials and companies can be risky. This was followed by
Russian Embassy's answer to Armenia, "It is not appropriate for the
diplomatic mission to indicate to the authorities of the host country
with whom and how they should cooperate, especially using by using
poorly veiled threats in respect of the sovereign state. (...)We believe
that the business community of Armenia is also able to understand the
business issues and do not need others' suggestions. We express our
concern about American attempts to complicate the work of Russian
business in the Republic of Armenia. All Russian companies represented
on the territory of Armenia, including "VTB Armenia" bank and
"Areximbank", are under the jurisdiction of given country, make a
profit and pay taxes in Armenia and provide employment to the
significant part of the country population." "In the general context,
Armenia's economy will greatly suffer from it, starting from the
transfers coming to Armenia and ending with Russian enterprises that
were not making investments here and were operated and depreciated to
throw away and leave, and now, they will not operate them at all.
Unemployment and so on, which is very bad," said our interlocutor,
adding that with Eurasian Union, Russia considers itself an
alternative to European Union by raising a question, "What is the
alternative? The European Union is a democracy, human rights, free
judicial market system, competition in the economy, serious financing
of scientific resources. Which is Russia's alternative to it? Is your
democracy to have constantly the same life-president, corrupt judicial
system, monopolies in market economy and having oligarchs? We have to
make a choice in-between these two. There are many political parties,
including government and non-government, which see the development of
Armenia with the Russian path. There are forces that see the
development of Armenia beyond it, one of which is also the "Republic".
And what they say the main debate in the upcoming next or early
parliamentary or presidential elections will be among these forces and
around this idea." Pursuant to Aram Sargsyan, Armenia does not have
any opportunity to come out safe from this Russian-American conflict
in Armenia. To the question of how deep the process will go, our
interlocutor said, "I think this process of the Cold War, which has
begun will end up in Russia's capitulation."
Nelly GRIGORYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2014/08/02/166267/