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SURVEY: 61% OF ARMENIANS HAVE FAVORABLE OPINION OF CUSTOMS UNION
Tuesday,
June 25
61% of Armenia's population has a favorable opinion of the Custom
Union of the EurAsEC, 4% of citizens are against it, and 26% are
indifferent to it. This data wase announced today by the Director of
Gallup International Association Armenia Office Aram Navasardian. The
organization has conducted a survey at the request of Armenian
Development Bank. 13,000 adults from 11 former republics of the USSR
were surveyed in April and May of 2012.
In response to the question: If Armenia signs a Deep and Comprehensive
Free Trade Agreement with the European Union in the near future,
what will happen to Karabakh?, one of the event's speakers, political
scientist Sergei Shakariants said: "We will be forbidden to conduct
free trade with the NKR. Russia may ignore it, but the same will not
work in case of the European Union".
Another speaker, economist Samvel Avagian did not share his opinion.
"The free trade agreement does not prevent us from signing a free
trade agreement with a third country, but if we join the Customs Union,
we will have no right to discuss conditions of conducting trade with
a third party".
Shakariants disagreed with his opinion, noting that the NKR is a
country whose status has not been specified yet and that a problem
of separate and agreed talks arises.
The economist said that trade with both the EurAsEC and EU countries
is advantageous to Armenia, while the political scientist expressed
an opinion that we need to wait, without taking actions regarding the
EurAsEC and the EU. He agrred, however, that this situation may last
only one year.
24.06.2013, 22:32
Aysor.am
From: Baghdasarian
Tuesday,
June 25
61% of Armenia's population has a favorable opinion of the Custom
Union of the EurAsEC, 4% of citizens are against it, and 26% are
indifferent to it. This data wase announced today by the Director of
Gallup International Association Armenia Office Aram Navasardian. The
organization has conducted a survey at the request of Armenian
Development Bank. 13,000 adults from 11 former republics of the USSR
were surveyed in April and May of 2012.
In response to the question: If Armenia signs a Deep and Comprehensive
Free Trade Agreement with the European Union in the near future,
what will happen to Karabakh?, one of the event's speakers, political
scientist Sergei Shakariants said: "We will be forbidden to conduct
free trade with the NKR. Russia may ignore it, but the same will not
work in case of the European Union".
Another speaker, economist Samvel Avagian did not share his opinion.
"The free trade agreement does not prevent us from signing a free
trade agreement with a third country, but if we join the Customs Union,
we will have no right to discuss conditions of conducting trade with
a third party".
Shakariants disagreed with his opinion, noting that the NKR is a
country whose status has not been specified yet and that a problem
of separate and agreed talks arises.
The economist said that trade with both the EurAsEC and EU countries
is advantageous to Armenia, while the political scientist expressed
an opinion that we need to wait, without taking actions regarding the
EurAsEC and the EU. He agrred, however, that this situation may last
only one year.
24.06.2013, 22:32
Aysor.am
From: Baghdasarian