RPA faction secretary Hovhannes Sahakyan was not yet familiar with the statement of the EC Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Commissioner Stefan Füle’s Spokesperson’s Peter Stano that the EU is not going to initialing neither the Association, nor the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area Agreements with Armenia, because these documents are not compatible with Customs Union membership, which Armenia is going to do.
In the conversation with us, Mr. Sahakyan became a little bit surprised and found it necessary to cite a message from the Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan’s Brussels meeting that they have met, talked, and discussed, and globally there had been no problem, or there is no problem, especially with regard to signing the EU Association Agreement to be expected in the Vilnius summit. “Once again I must say that we are ready to continue the close cooperation in the political and institutional reforms, and there is no problem, at least, from our perspective. At the same time, we have constantly said that we are ready to cooperate with the EU as close and in-depth, as the EU is ready and considers the relationship with us acceptable and perceptible,” – said the ruling RPA representative. To our question whether, in fact, we accuse the EU, Hovhannes Sahakyan said,- “The EU is not to blame.
But if we look at the path of EU’s 28 states, especially the latest membership of the Baltic countries to the EU, you can see what a long way they have passed, what changes took place in the structural and institutional aspects. We see that the path is long and as a result of the EU’s joint, close efforts it was taken to this field, the opportunity was provided. It should be so in our case, too.”
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