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    ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT VICE-SPEAKER: THE ONLY WAY FOR STABLE DEVELOPMENT IS EUROPEAN

    ARKA News Agency
    Aug 3 2005

    YEREVAN, August 2. /ARKA/. The only way Armenia has for stable
    development is European way, Armenian National Assembly Vice-Speaker
    Tigran Torosyan said at Constitutional Guarantees of Stable Development
    round-table discussion held Tuesday in Yerevan. In his words,
    the republic's geopolitical position and current challenges don't
    allow it to fall into soviet-era-like isolation. In his opinion,
    Armenia Eurointegration process went on at a sluggish pace in
    2004-2005. Torosyan sees the current constitution as the main obstacle
    for that. He thinks although Armenia finds itself behind Poland, Czech
    Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Baltic countries having reach
    experience of democracy gained in pre-soviet epoch, the republic was
    capable not to stay behind Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia. Torosyan
    says that today, when a group of countries joined the European Union
    and another group of countries became the EU aspirants, Armenia
    found itself outside this row and the main obstacle is the current
    constitution. Level of economic freedom in Armenia exceeds that in
    some EU member countries. The Vice-Speaker noted that Armenia is
    the only country, where gap between economic freedom and democracy
    is so wide. In his explanation, the present constitution is not
    hobbling economy, but barring democracy from developing. That's why
    constitutional reforms are so needed, Torosyn said. M.V. -0---

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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