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"The Customs Union's future is in question."
August 16 2014
On June 23, this year, when the Eurasian Economic Union's (EEU) Board
session was held in Sochi and Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister,
Igor Shuvalov, announced that in case of accession to the EEU, Armenia
should compensate the World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries
the difference of customs duties defined by the EEU and WTO, a number
of economists and political scientist were predicting Armenia's
membership failure to EEU and the Customs Union. Recently, Russian
Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has signed a Government decree on
giving approval to the draft of the agreement of Armenia's accession
to the Eurasian Economic Union, and has instructed to present the
proposal of signing the aforementioned agreement to the President of
Russia. President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, in his telephone
conversation with Putin had that Armenia's accession to the EEU should
not be to the detriment of the Customs Union. Whether there are
attempts made to the failure of Armenian's accession to the EEU and
the Customs Union, and Armenia is persistently making steps towards
these structures, political scientist Stepan Danielyan thinks that it
is not important as to what they say, but why they say. "As far as I
understand, Russia wants to involve Armenian into the Customs Union in
order to balance the votes of Kazakhstan and Belarus: to have 2 votes
instead of one, Armenia is the same vote as Russia. Naturally, Belarus
and Kazakhstan would be reluctant for Russia to have this kind of
influence during the decision-making process", such opinion was
expressed by Mr. Danielyan, in the conversation with Aravot.am. These
statements, according to the political scientist, should not be
treated seriously. "Because we see what processes are going on in both
the territory of the former Soviet Union and the Western Europe. The
Ukraine crisis does not only put the future of the Customs Union in
question, in general, but also causes serious problems inside the
Eurasian Union. Different countries have different interests, and to
speak in such conditions that something has already been decided, is
inappropriate. In other words, processes take place, which are not
definite, such statements, in many cases, have a tactical and
psychological significance. Nothing at this moment is decided."
Nelly BABAYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2014/08/16/166535/
From: A. Papazian
August 16 2014
On June 23, this year, when the Eurasian Economic Union's (EEU) Board
session was held in Sochi and Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister,
Igor Shuvalov, announced that in case of accession to the EEU, Armenia
should compensate the World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries
the difference of customs duties defined by the EEU and WTO, a number
of economists and political scientist were predicting Armenia's
membership failure to EEU and the Customs Union. Recently, Russian
Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has signed a Government decree on
giving approval to the draft of the agreement of Armenia's accession
to the Eurasian Economic Union, and has instructed to present the
proposal of signing the aforementioned agreement to the President of
Russia. President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, in his telephone
conversation with Putin had that Armenia's accession to the EEU should
not be to the detriment of the Customs Union. Whether there are
attempts made to the failure of Armenian's accession to the EEU and
the Customs Union, and Armenia is persistently making steps towards
these structures, political scientist Stepan Danielyan thinks that it
is not important as to what they say, but why they say. "As far as I
understand, Russia wants to involve Armenian into the Customs Union in
order to balance the votes of Kazakhstan and Belarus: to have 2 votes
instead of one, Armenia is the same vote as Russia. Naturally, Belarus
and Kazakhstan would be reluctant for Russia to have this kind of
influence during the decision-making process", such opinion was
expressed by Mr. Danielyan, in the conversation with Aravot.am. These
statements, according to the political scientist, should not be
treated seriously. "Because we see what processes are going on in both
the territory of the former Soviet Union and the Western Europe. The
Ukraine crisis does not only put the future of the Customs Union in
question, in general, but also causes serious problems inside the
Eurasian Union. Different countries have different interests, and to
speak in such conditions that something has already been decided, is
inappropriate. In other words, processes take place, which are not
definite, such statements, in many cases, have a tactical and
psychological significance. Nothing at this moment is decided."
Nelly BABAYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2014/08/16/166535/
From: A. Papazian