At the same time it’s mentioned that Armenia’s rather rapid process of membership to EEU requires proceeding with the process of approximation of policies and regulations, which will provide Armenia’s businessmen and investors the opportunity to actually feel positive implications of the membership.
“Irreversible were the losses of the genocide that befell the Armenians. The world now recognizes and condemns this atrocious crime, but what is of utmost importance to us is the recognition by Turkey and facing its own history. The Centenary of the Armenian Genocide showed that Armenian-Turkish reconciliation is not a top-down exercise. The Turkish authorities opted for flagrant falsification of history.”
“We are strongly interested in Turkey’s peaceful and democratic development. It is our belief that fundamental democratization is the only way in which all the peoples living in Turkey will feel as fully-fledged citizens and will be able to lead a dignified life. Ethnic and religious minorities will not be taken as second- or third-class. Unfortunately, we are witnessing the opposite trends in public and political life in some of our neighboring countries, which is worrisome,” Serzh sargsyan said.
“Judging from everything, reduction in price in the territory of Armenia will be recorded. Generally prices for gas are formulated in an interesting way, as compared to prices for oil, stocks. Gas stocks don’t exist, they are formed locally, there is no global price for gas, and currently it’s intended to initiate a gas stock in St. Petersburg, it fails, although it’s also local. Prices for gas change quickly, including out of political perceptions, i.e. judging from this factor, prices may be “tricked,” but not for a long period. I consider, it’ll be announced during the forthcoming visit. “
It’s much more important to find out for which programs loans have been engaged, who decided priority of those programs and how involved means have been expended. Just from this very standpoint, it’s not surprising that one of the country’s political organizations proposes to launch public discussions on establishing a commission for implementation of independent audit.
“Nobody hurries to make investments into a small market in a country with closed borders and neighboring enemies. It’s difficult to convince, but we have to.”
Mikayel Hambardzumyan, First Deputy Chief of Investigation Department of NSS, told on this reporters today. He stressed that people accused within this criminal case, as considered innocent, as there are no verdicts in force. In an interview with reporters, photos of proofs have been shown, on which Mikayel Hambardzumyan introduced his comments.
“To our assessment, program and purpose of the grouping was informed, after which he assumed a certain role to provide participation in its implementation and do some activities. Currently our issue is clarifying whether Shirkhanyan has implemented any activities or not. After that we’ll again touch upon assessment of Shirkhanyan’s activities.”
“Likewise idea has been circulated in the grouping. Even certain actions have been implemented by the members of the grouping, however, final program, agreement hasn’t been initiated by Artur Vardanyan, organizer of the grouping, it was only on discussion level.”
Touching upon cooperation with Armenia, A.Kinakh stated that issues of utmost importance are being discussed: how to improve bilateral cooperation, trade turnover, investments under global processes, from serious competition in international market, up to socio-political developments both in Europe and Asia.
