Many state officials and primarily the Prime-Minister, are paying much attention to reports of renown international organizations and to their best to make sure Armenia is advanced in their rating lists.
Our interviewee is the chair of the Businessmen and Producer Union of Armenia Arsen Ghazaryan
During yesterday’s parliamentary session deputies were trying to understand how it could happen that Armenia was in negotiation with Europe during four years for the purpose of signing association agreement, and just two months before that drastically made a political decision to join Customs Union proposed by Russia and other post-Soviet states.
In a session following parliamentary sitting yesterday Alexander Arzumanyan, former foreign minister, said that the society has not been able to get along with the news concerning joining Customs Union, we see some new integration.
The most discussed political topic in Armenia now is the issue of Armenia joining a proposed Customs Union made of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan. Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan has come up with announcement saying that Armenia is committed to joining the Union. Most people who oppose to or are for joining the Union do not really know what it is.
The official webpage of Carnegie Endowment for International peace published the article of a senior associate of the Endowment, Thomas de Waal, author of the authoritative book on the Karabakh conflict, Black Garden and many other articles. The last article was titled, “An offer Serzh Sargsyan couldn’t refuse.” It reads, “The announcement came quite suddenly. Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan was going on a brief visit to Moscow.
Investments, economic growth, prosperity… Do you know what’s the main condition for the occurrence of these three things – property right; more accurately, the right of the immunity of property right.
The last option would probably be the most optimal decision. By the way, if this scenario really takes place then the most feasible candidate would president would be Paruyr Hayrikyan, which had been long ago suggesting electing him a symbolic president in order to bring the actual parliamentary democracy to life.
Almost day-by-day we can see the pressure of Russia on Armenia trying to keep it away from signing the Association Agreement in Vilnius. In these conditions, lustration would become a seal salvation for the small number of politicians and the big number of citizens who don’t wish to obey the interests of the Russian empire.
While the Armenian government is trying to shun the dilemma between EU and the Eurasian Union, by doing everything not to make Russia mad, the latter plays more open cards with Armenia without spare formalities. The best example of that was yesterday’s statement of the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Pact Nikolay Bordyuzha, who claimed that Russia does a lot for Armenia.
