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REPUBLICAN MP: SITUATION IN UKRAINE IS A RESULT OF EU'S WRONG POLICY
by Tatevik Shahunyan
Thursday, February 20, 13:52
What is happening in Ukraine now is a result of the European Union's
wrong policy towards the Eastern Partnership countries, says Artak
Zakaryan, Head of the Parliament Committee for Foreign Affairs.
Talking to reporters, Thursday, Zakaryan said that the EU has thrown
the EaP countries into a dilemma of either Association with Europe
or involvement into another union.
"The interests of the EaP countries have been neglected from the very
beginning. They were divided into 'Eastern and Western barricades',"
Zakaryan said.
The EU is well aware of that, he said. This is what made it offer a new
'European Package.' The parliamentarian thinks that the situation
in Ukraine has got out off control of both the authorities and
the opposition. According to him, the EU wages a wrong policy also
towards Armenia throwing the country into a dilemma: Customs Union
and Association Agreement.
His rival, a member of the Armenian Pan-National Movement Party
Hovhanness Igityan disagreed with Zakaryan. He claims that it was
Russia that threw Armenia into dilemma and not Europe. To recall,
on 3 September 2013 Armenia preferred Russia's Customs Union to the
Association Agreement with the EU despite 4 years of negotiations with
the EU. The Armenian leadership offered simultaneous participation
in both the unions, but the EU did not accept it due to contradictory
statutes and regulations of the Association Agreement and the CU.
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=20E1B9C0-9A1D-11E3-9F530EB7C0D21663
by Tatevik Shahunyan
Thursday, February 20, 13:52
What is happening in Ukraine now is a result of the European Union's
wrong policy towards the Eastern Partnership countries, says Artak
Zakaryan, Head of the Parliament Committee for Foreign Affairs.
Talking to reporters, Thursday, Zakaryan said that the EU has thrown
the EaP countries into a dilemma of either Association with Europe
or involvement into another union.
"The interests of the EaP countries have been neglected from the very
beginning. They were divided into 'Eastern and Western barricades',"
Zakaryan said.
The EU is well aware of that, he said. This is what made it offer a new
'European Package.' The parliamentarian thinks that the situation
in Ukraine has got out off control of both the authorities and
the opposition. According to him, the EU wages a wrong policy also
towards Armenia throwing the country into a dilemma: Customs Union
and Association Agreement.
His rival, a member of the Armenian Pan-National Movement Party
Hovhanness Igityan disagreed with Zakaryan. He claims that it was
Russia that threw Armenia into dilemma and not Europe. To recall,
on 3 September 2013 Armenia preferred Russia's Customs Union to the
Association Agreement with the EU despite 4 years of negotiations with
the EU. The Armenian leadership offered simultaneous participation
in both the unions, but the EU did not accept it due to contradictory
statutes and regulations of the Association Agreement and the CU.
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=20E1B9C0-9A1D-11E3-9F530EB7C0D21663