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    EU NOT ABANDONING ARMENIA - POLITICIAN

    13:08 * 17.02.14

    The documents titled "20 Points on the Eastern Partnership
    Post-Vilnius" demonstrates the European Union's willingness to continue
    its partnership with Armenia, says a politician.

    Speaking to Tert.am, the deputy leader of the opposition Heritage
    party, Armen Hovhannisyan, shared both his positive and negative
    outlook on the proposed deal. He said despite the positive prospects
    that the document inspires, certain wordings give grounds for concerns.

    "Even the phrase 'deeper cooperation with Georgia and Moldova', the EU
    perspective for Ukraine and Armenia's somewhat restricted cooperation
    testifies to the fact that Armenia's status is lowered," he said.

    On the other hand, the EU has realized that they have to work more
    openly with the society, the politician added. "They have also realized
    that they should have submitted the agreements to enable us to clearly
    make comparisons between the Association Agreement and the terms of
    the Customs Union [integration]".

    Martirosyan said he thinks that the document should have reflected
    the real situation with electoral processes (as seen by European
    officials).

    "We saw that the points contain a provision ruling out Russian
    pressures, but they may later promote closer ties between Armenia and
    the EU. But it has to be content-based, not the way that has existed
    so far. Legislative packages and assessment will be no use to us,"
    he added.

    Commenting on the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee's
    14th session thatfailed to adopt a joint statement on Nagorno-Karabakh,
    Martirosyan said he doesn't think the European partners' attitude was
    unexpected in the light of Armenia's decision to join the Russian-led
    Customs Union (despite the four-year negotiations with the EU).

    "I don't think Russia was the problem here; it was Europe's response.

    The same delegation did not come to Armenia after [President Serzh
    Sargsyan's September 3] statement on the Customs Union. And the
    resolutions on Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] they referred to were not
    pro-Armenian," he noted.

    Asked whether he doesn't think that the new document would be yet
    another formal deal, Martirosyan said that the important thing now
    to be given a chance for undertaking real steps in Armenia.

    Armenian News - Tert.am



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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