For Armenia’s authorities, making statements on integration with Europe, in fact, current quality and regime of relations with Europe are ideal, when becoming a part of Europe is touched upon only on statement level, and at the same time, money is obtained from Europe to continue talking about it.
Armenia’s trade turnover with the European Union as of the beginning of this year has decreased by 1%,comprising 24.4% of total trade turnover. This is mainly the result of decrease of trade volumes with Germany.
“I personally know Samvel Babayan, yet years ago I got acquainted with him, thus I can share with my personal impressions.In my opinion, Samvel Babayan in no way is a politician, even by 1 percent, he is an ordinary militarian, thus he has no political perspectives,” Modest Kolerov said.
“Since the beginning of 2016, the OSCE German chairmanship repeatedly stressed how important the formation of a mutual trust atmosphere is in the line of contact, and the important component of this issue is the expansion of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk’s office.
“In previous years there were initiatives of establishing dialogue between the societies of two states, however, this resolution will give a new opportunity to further promote that dialogue.”