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EAU INTEGRATION IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT KARABAKH - ARMENIAN MP
16:45 * 30.05.14
An Armenian opposition MP said Friday that he doesn't expect any
government to agree to country's integration into the Eurasian Economic
Union (EaU) without Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armen Rustamyan of the ARF-D (Armenian Revolutionary
Federation-Dashnaksutyun) parliamentary faction made the remark as
he addressed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's letter (which
Kazakhstan's president read out at the Supreme Eurasian Economic
Council's meeting on Thursday) that ruled out the possibility of
Karabakh's membership in the common economic area.
Rustamyan said he is under the impression that Norsultan Nazarbaev
made his speech on behalf of someone else, without expressing his
personal position. "When the membership issue is solved, there will be
an occasion not to avoid or ignore the questions raised by Nazarbaev.
If you have opened [the topic], be kind enough to delve deep into it;
it is a good opportunity for us to be able to protect interests,"
he told reporters.
The opposition MP said he doesn't find Nazarbaev's speech a surprise
move, adding that the Kazakh leader has always backed the interests
of Turkey and Azerbaijan. "It was originally clear that Kazakhstan
was carrying out their lobbying. The more Armenia's full membership
is discussed, the tenser the agenda, because Azerbaijan, which is
withdrawing from the process, will do everything possible to prevent
the Eurasian Union from strengthening its positions. Azerbaijan
will do all its best to seek favorable formulations on the Karabakh
[conflict] settlement through the membership," he noted.
Asked whether he expects Armenia to abandon the Eurasian Union
membership plans, Rustamyan said he thinks that a demand for the
Karabakh recognition could be the only decisive factor. "If it is
stated that we are ready not to join the Eurasian Union at such a price
- I mean not joining with Karabakh - I don't think any authorities
will agree to that," he said.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/05/30/rustamyan-eurasian-union/
16:45 * 30.05.14
An Armenian opposition MP said Friday that he doesn't expect any
government to agree to country's integration into the Eurasian Economic
Union (EaU) without Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armen Rustamyan of the ARF-D (Armenian Revolutionary
Federation-Dashnaksutyun) parliamentary faction made the remark as
he addressed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's letter (which
Kazakhstan's president read out at the Supreme Eurasian Economic
Council's meeting on Thursday) that ruled out the possibility of
Karabakh's membership in the common economic area.
Rustamyan said he is under the impression that Norsultan Nazarbaev
made his speech on behalf of someone else, without expressing his
personal position. "When the membership issue is solved, there will be
an occasion not to avoid or ignore the questions raised by Nazarbaev.
If you have opened [the topic], be kind enough to delve deep into it;
it is a good opportunity for us to be able to protect interests,"
he told reporters.
The opposition MP said he doesn't find Nazarbaev's speech a surprise
move, adding that the Kazakh leader has always backed the interests
of Turkey and Azerbaijan. "It was originally clear that Kazakhstan
was carrying out their lobbying. The more Armenia's full membership
is discussed, the tenser the agenda, because Azerbaijan, which is
withdrawing from the process, will do everything possible to prevent
the Eurasian Union from strengthening its positions. Azerbaijan
will do all its best to seek favorable formulations on the Karabakh
[conflict] settlement through the membership," he noted.
Asked whether he expects Armenia to abandon the Eurasian Union
membership plans, Rustamyan said he thinks that a demand for the
Karabakh recognition could be the only decisive factor. "If it is
stated that we are ready not to join the Eurasian Union at such a price
- I mean not joining with Karabakh - I don't think any authorities
will agree to that," he said.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/05/30/rustamyan-eurasian-union/