“I think it is clear why we have decided to become a member of the Customs Union and get integrated in the Eurasian economic territory. It enables us to build our relations with our strategic partner on a firmer platform. It enables us to get rid the hindering factors of trade. In the recent years intensive processes have been taking place in the framework of the Customs Union and if we don’t get integrated in this Union, new borders will be created for us that will include numerous limitations. This is an impermissible luxury for us. That is the reason why we have made a political decision to be integrated in the Customs Union.”
“Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan’s decision to join the Customs Union instead of signing a Free and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the European Union is a step back on the way to integration with Europe, and it is also a step back in Armenia’s modernization and development,” says Amanda Paul, expert of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels. The EPC is a research center that is involved in European integration issues.
In the US the new fiscal year starts on October 1 but till now the Democrats and Republicans cannot come to an agreement and till now the Congress hasn’t adopted the supreme financial document of the country.
Yesterday the members of the “Say no to gender perversion” initiative organized a protest in Yerevan. They marched to the government building and submitted a letter to the government. This initiative is against the newly elaborated bill on the equality of men and women, which caused so much noise.
On September 2nd, 1958, there was an explosion in the sky above Sasnashen village. Villagers went out to streets and saw an airplane falling and military aircrafts flying around it. They heard shootings as well. The airplane fell down in several hundred meters from the populated area. Villagers run to the area of the plane crash hoping to save someone.
Probably the reason is the American government’s partial shutdown. As a result of this, a number of projects have been delayed or cancelled. In foreign policy they delayed actions according to priority sequence. I am not sure if this was the real reason.
When a man cries it means that a very bad thing happened. It is the women, who are masters at crying. They even know how to cry in order to ensure their forehead doesn’t get too wrinkled. The nature created the man in a way to ensure he doesn’t cry too often. That is the reason why a crying man means desperation, powerlessness, etc.
After the Cuban revolution the Armenian renowned composer Aram Khachatryan was among the first, who toured to the Liberty Island with a small soviet delegation. The political context was very obvious in this tour but not for him. In February 1960 Khachatryan presented his second symphony. He was also the leader of the group.
“Your friends might try to convince you that the British investments are necessary for Armenia. They create jobs, etc. But the few workplaces created in the mining sector contain bigger effects for other sectors. Mining is only 3% of our GDP.” This is only a part from the letter of Armenian environmentalists addressed to Prince Charles.
We asked former foreign minister of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan to comment on Heritage opposition party representative Zarouhi Postanjyan’s question to president Sargsyan at a PACE session asking if it is true that the president has lost money in European casinos.
