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NAGORNO-KARABAKH ISSUE CAN NOT PREVENT ARMENIA FROM JOINING EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION
YEREVAN, June 6. / ARKA /. The unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
can not prevent Armenia from joining the Eurasian Economic Union,
according to Vadim Gigin, the chief editor of "Belarusian Dumka"
magazine, who spoke at a news conference today in Yerevan.
Speaking at May 29 summit of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in Astana,
Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev cited the need to address
Azerbaijan's concerns, expressed in a letter sent by its president
to the heads of the three countries, demanding that the forthcoming
accession treaty with Yerevan stipulate that Armenia is joining the
Eurasian Economic Union with its internationally recognized borders.
"The Karabakh issue has nothing to do with the Eurasian integration.
Armenia is a member of the UN, OSCE, Council of Europe, the CIS and the
Collective Security Treaty Organization and has had no complications
related to its borders," Gigin said.
He said differences exist even between allies, for example, between
the EU and NATO and what is important is the ability to resolve them.
Semyon Uralov, a Russian expert, said products made in Nagorno-Karabakh
can safely enter Eurasian Economic Union's market if labeled as
'Made in Armenia.'
Uralov also urged Armenian authorities to launch a massive lobbying
campaign in Russia, Georgia, Europe and the United States to push for
the reviving the railway link across Georgia's breakaway region of
Abkhazia. He said this task is facilitated by the fact that Armenia
has good relations both with Russia and Georgia.
"Given the Russian economic assistance to Abkhazia as well as its
military presence in the region Moscow can convince Abkhazia to allow
the resumption of the railway link through its territory," he said.
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YEREVAN, June 6. / ARKA /. The unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
can not prevent Armenia from joining the Eurasian Economic Union,
according to Vadim Gigin, the chief editor of "Belarusian Dumka"
magazine, who spoke at a news conference today in Yerevan.
Speaking at May 29 summit of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in Astana,
Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev cited the need to address
Azerbaijan's concerns, expressed in a letter sent by its president
to the heads of the three countries, demanding that the forthcoming
accession treaty with Yerevan stipulate that Armenia is joining the
Eurasian Economic Union with its internationally recognized borders.
"The Karabakh issue has nothing to do with the Eurasian integration.
Armenia is a member of the UN, OSCE, Council of Europe, the CIS and the
Collective Security Treaty Organization and has had no complications
related to its borders," Gigin said.
He said differences exist even between allies, for example, between
the EU and NATO and what is important is the ability to resolve them.
Semyon Uralov, a Russian expert, said products made in Nagorno-Karabakh
can safely enter Eurasian Economic Union's market if labeled as
'Made in Armenia.'
Uralov also urged Armenian authorities to launch a massive lobbying
campaign in Russia, Georgia, Europe and the United States to push for
the reviving the railway link across Georgia's breakaway region of
Abkhazia. He said this task is facilitated by the fact that Armenia
has good relations both with Russia and Georgia.
"Given the Russian economic assistance to Abkhazia as well as its
military presence in the region Moscow can convince Abkhazia to allow
the resumption of the railway link through its territory," he said.
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- See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/nagorno_karabakh_issue_can_not_prevent_armenia_fro m_joining_eurasian_economic_union/#sthash.HRcW8Rl7.dpuf