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"Sensation" By Russian Ambassador
The Russian ambassador to Armenia Ivan Volinkin confirmed in his
exclusive interview with Radio Liberty that by joining the Customs
Union Armenia will give away part of its sovereignty, like Russia and
other member states, and generally any state that joins a union.
The ambassador is right. The European states also gave away part of
their sovereignty when they joined the European Union. And this is not
a surprise.
However, the notion of sovereignty has a de jure and de facto
political meaning. De jure the European countries gave away part of
their sovereignty to the Customs Union and are guided by union
decisions in most cases. This is de jure part of sovereignty.
However, there is also a political component, the political value of
this notion. For example, the European states de jure gave away part
of their sovereignty but de facto they did it voluntarily, made a free
choice, assessing the situation and taking the step consciously.
In the case of Armenia, the de facto component is missing. In
addition, it will not be found after joining the Customs Union. It was
missing before membership to the Customs Union, and membership was the
consequence of lack of sovereignty. Generally, a state does not lose
its political sovereignty whether it joins a Union or not. Sovereignty
being composed of legal and political components, it is also an
expression of some internal energy. And that internal energy comes
from the situation of the country.
When this situation is good, when there is law enforcement, and the
citizens are enabled to exercise freely their abilities, mental and
physical resources and talents, the state has power of sovereignty.
Otherwise, for the thing called elite the state is just a generator of
power used to light their own castles with an inner belief that it is
a perpetuum mobile, and there is nothing to feed sovereignty on. The
decision on joining the Customs Union was the consequence of this
situation. The sovereignty of the country is not nourished by inner
qualities of the state, therefore the pressure from Russia led to the
outrageous act of September 3.
The Russian ambassador was speaking about the surface of the problem.
He is not interested in what is lying deep because the lever of
influence of his country is lying deep. Influence will weaken if
change takes place deep inside. Meanwhile, it would be in line with
the interests of Armenia to view the issue deeply, not superficially.
James Hakobyan
12:27 16/11/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/31320
The Russian ambassador to Armenia Ivan Volinkin confirmed in his
exclusive interview with Radio Liberty that by joining the Customs
Union Armenia will give away part of its sovereignty, like Russia and
other member states, and generally any state that joins a union.
The ambassador is right. The European states also gave away part of
their sovereignty when they joined the European Union. And this is not
a surprise.
However, the notion of sovereignty has a de jure and de facto
political meaning. De jure the European countries gave away part of
their sovereignty to the Customs Union and are guided by union
decisions in most cases. This is de jure part of sovereignty.
However, there is also a political component, the political value of
this notion. For example, the European states de jure gave away part
of their sovereignty but de facto they did it voluntarily, made a free
choice, assessing the situation and taking the step consciously.
In the case of Armenia, the de facto component is missing. In
addition, it will not be found after joining the Customs Union. It was
missing before membership to the Customs Union, and membership was the
consequence of lack of sovereignty. Generally, a state does not lose
its political sovereignty whether it joins a Union or not. Sovereignty
being composed of legal and political components, it is also an
expression of some internal energy. And that internal energy comes
from the situation of the country.
When this situation is good, when there is law enforcement, and the
citizens are enabled to exercise freely their abilities, mental and
physical resources and talents, the state has power of sovereignty.
Otherwise, for the thing called elite the state is just a generator of
power used to light their own castles with an inner belief that it is
a perpetuum mobile, and there is nothing to feed sovereignty on. The
decision on joining the Customs Union was the consequence of this
situation. The sovereignty of the country is not nourished by inner
qualities of the state, therefore the pressure from Russia led to the
outrageous act of September 3.
The Russian ambassador was speaking about the surface of the problem.
He is not interested in what is lying deep because the lever of
influence of his country is lying deep. Influence will weaken if
change takes place deep inside. Meanwhile, it would be in line with
the interests of Armenia to view the issue deeply, not superficially.
James Hakobyan
12:27 16/11/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/31320