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    Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
    Sept 4 2014

    Armenia's joining of the Customs Union still being dragged out

    4 September 2014 - 10:55am


    The path of Armenia to join the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and
    Kazakhstan, taken at a meeting of presidents Vladimir Putin and Serzh
    Sargsyan in Moscow a year ago, has not ended yet. Armenia was planning
    to become a member of the CU in spring 2014, before the signing of the
    Eurasian Union agreement in Astana on May 29. The summit of presidents
    of the Customs Union in Minsk on September 10 is another benchmark in
    the process.

    Andrey Smirnov, vice president of the Eurasian Cooperation Development
    Foundation, said that Armenia has started integration into the Customs
    Union with a road map consisting of 50 compulsory points. Kazakhstani
    President Nursultan Nazarbayev named technical aspects for Armenia at
    the Astana meeting on May 29. Neither Armenia nor Kyrgyzstan have
    accomplished all the technical goals.

    Smirnov reminded that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree
    on September 1 to join Armenia to the Eurasian Economic Union. He is
    adamant that the presidents of Armenia and Kyrgyzstan will be invited
    to the September 10 meeting and an agreement will be signed. An
    unsanctioned protest happened at the president's administration on
    September 4, 2013, the day following news about Armenia's integration
    into the CU instead of association with the EU. Similar protests
    started yesterday, activists were calling for the independence of
    Armenia and insulting the Russian authorities.

    Special outrage in Armenia was caused by warnings by Nazarbayev that
    the occupied territories of Nagorno-Karabakh could not take part in
    any Eurasian integration projects. The Kazakh president told his
    Armenian counterpart Sargsyan that joining the Eurasian Union is done
    according to the borders recognized by the UN, just like joining the
    WTO.

    The Armenian president agreed to join the CU and the EaEU according to
    UN-recognised borders later. The Armenian authorities regularly
    emphasize that Yerevan will not make any efforts to follow the rule as
    a member of the Customs Union. Armenia is basically organizing a
    full-fledged border with occupied Azerbaijani territories, customs
    offices and a ban on crossing it without the necessary documents. It
    is possible that the occupied territories are what is slowing Armenian
    integration into Eurasian projects.

    http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/59610.html

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