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    MP'S COMMENDABLE INITIATIVE

    Member of the ARF Bureau, Member of Parliament Vahan Hovhannisyan
    published an article entitled "Friends Or Brothers" in which he raises
    the issue of relations between Europe and Armenia and Russia's stance
    on that, arguing that Russia's concerns about betrayal of Armenia
    are not grounded.

    Recently Vahan Hovhannisyan has published articles on different topics,
    which is a commendable practice for politicians. In Armenia politicians
    are usually distinguished for interviews and press conferences in which
    rational arguments are essentially replaced with insipid cliches or
    false revolutionary.

    This article has a different format which puts forth another type of
    responsibility before a politician, establishes another type of public
    and political culture, new public perceptions of politics. In this
    regard, it is commendable that economic and political personalities
    present to the public articles on their ideas about one issue or
    another.

    As to the article, Vahan Hovhannisyan touches upon ideas which have
    been rare in the Armenian environment, were expressed by one or two
    authors only. I mean the practice of analysis of Russia's attitude the
    policy of European integration. The most frequent interpretation is
    that Armenia betrays Russia, lets it down and thereby enables Russia
    to punish Armenia.

    Those interested in this approach are people who use everything
    for internal political purposes guided by "the worse, the better"
    principle, and people on whom Russia relied, destroying the influence
    of Moscow in Armenia. Of course, official Moscow is responsible
    because these people act according to standards approved by Moscow.

    However, it is already a matter of relations between people and
    official Moscow.

    Armenia's task is to explain to Moscow that if the state tries to
    meet its economic, political and security needs, it is at least
    a superficial approach or manipulation to present this attempt as
    anti-Russian sentiment. How come a country's need is presented as
    anti-Russian sentiment? Especially if Russia would not agree that
    its sale of offensive weapon to Azerbaijan is an anti-Armenian step
    and refers to is as common business.

    >From this point of view, Vahan Hovhannisyan's approaches are
    commendable both in terms of format and content. There is only one
    exception. Concluding that the wording "either ... or" is unacceptable,
    the member of parliament says that the Europeans have put the issue
    this way. Vahan Hovhannisyan's attitude is negative.

    In the long run, it is bad and wrong to speak about European
    integration in the either ... or wording. However, the Europeans'
    "either ... or" is strictly limited to the legal aspect. The Europeans
    have stated clearly that Armenia cannot enter into association
    with the EU and join the Customs Union simultaneously. In this case,
    either ... or refers to precise legal categories for the simple reason
    that a member state of the Customs Union is not independent in its
    customs procedures while the association status of the EU requires
    such independence.

    Hence it is clear that Armenia is facing "either ... or" in this
    specific case, and not noticing it will further complicate and tangle
    Armenia's task. On the contrary, the EU has stated bluntly that in no
    way does it oppose to integration of Armenia with Russia and the CIS
    members. Problems may occur only in case they contradict the havens
    of the process of relationship with the EU.

    It is necessary to present this issue to the Armenian society precisely
    because in the long run not Europe shapes the task but the people
    engaged in manipulations.

    Hakob Badalyan 19:15 31/07/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30596


    From: Baghdasarian
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