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"ARMENIA IS NOT INVITED TO ASTANA NOT TO BARGAIN." POLITICAL ANALYST
March 11 2015
Serzh Sargsyan's attendance at the forthcoming meeting on March 12
and 13 in Astana with the presidents of the three founding members
of the Eurasian Union - Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, as political
analyst Stepan Safaryan is sure, was not beneficial to the founding
member countries of the Union. "Obviously, Belarus and Kazakhstan
would like to discuss the impact of the new sanctions provided for
against Moscow on their new economy. They will discuss the losses
caused to their economy that they suffer being Russia's ally and
would try to gain benefit from Russia. In this respect, neither
Russia nor Belarus and Kazakhstan benefits from the attendance of
Armenia because one more bargainer will be added. It is beneficial
to everyone that these problems are discussed without Armenia,"
said Stepan Safaryan. In his words, as Armenia does not have much
weight in the EaEU project, they have left it out of their meetings
and show that it is a meeting that has nothing to do with the EaEU,
although the EaEU-related issues will be discussed. "It is not that
Armenia does not suffer for being dependent on Russia, but, as there
is no one to invite Armenia, these issues will be discussed by those,
who are able to put claims to each other." Recall that Armenia's deputy
FM Shavarsh Kocharyan explained the non-attendance of the Armenian side
by the fact of having no disagreements with the EaEU member states.
Arpine SIMONYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2015/03/11/169201/
March 11 2015
Serzh Sargsyan's attendance at the forthcoming meeting on March 12
and 13 in Astana with the presidents of the three founding members
of the Eurasian Union - Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, as political
analyst Stepan Safaryan is sure, was not beneficial to the founding
member countries of the Union. "Obviously, Belarus and Kazakhstan
would like to discuss the impact of the new sanctions provided for
against Moscow on their new economy. They will discuss the losses
caused to their economy that they suffer being Russia's ally and
would try to gain benefit from Russia. In this respect, neither
Russia nor Belarus and Kazakhstan benefits from the attendance of
Armenia because one more bargainer will be added. It is beneficial
to everyone that these problems are discussed without Armenia,"
said Stepan Safaryan. In his words, as Armenia does not have much
weight in the EaEU project, they have left it out of their meetings
and show that it is a meeting that has nothing to do with the EaEU,
although the EaEU-related issues will be discussed. "It is not that
Armenia does not suffer for being dependent on Russia, but, as there
is no one to invite Armenia, these issues will be discussed by those,
who are able to put claims to each other." Recall that Armenia's deputy
FM Shavarsh Kocharyan explained the non-attendance of the Armenian side
by the fact of having no disagreements with the EaEU member states.
Arpine SIMONYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2015/03/11/169201/