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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/

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