“Heritage” party spokesman Hovsep Khurshudyan, in the interview with Aravot.am, did not exclude that tomorrow we might celebrate the last Independence Day. “Nothing is excluded. Putin may wake up in Russia and decide that it’s time for Armenia to enter the zone of the ruble, it is the time that at a larger scale offices operate here, which will take our countrymen to work in Altay. Russia, as you know, is in need for workforce. If everything is going to be decided in the Kremlin as to what should happen in Armenia, how it should react in this or that issue, it would naturally mean that the preservation of the national flag and anthem would merely be circumstances of formal character.”
Hovsep Khurshudyan noted that all serious experts who express objective opinion about the entry into the Customs Union rather than trying to, in every way, justify the President’s Sept. 3 decision by bootlicking the authorities, are saying that there would be price increase as a result of joining the Customs Union.
“Just at least with regard to rates of customs duties, you know that it is pretty liberal regime in Armenia, low rates of customs duties unlike the RF. If we are going to join the CU, of course, all the products will considerable increase. Migration will increase drastically. To maintain their seats, these authorities, seems, they are not going to stop before anything.”
The justification for the authorities that entering into the Customs Union is a necessity for security reasons, Hovsep Khurshudyan so commented.- “Our security has never been so much endangered as now, when you give all your security tools to one country, and there is no diversification that you will be able to at least balance you security with the West, South, and in all directions. You have already exposed your safety to danger. If Putin, the Kremlin has to decide the size of your safety, I’m sure that this person does not feel great love toward Armenia, but towards his interests. If, tomorrow, he decides that Aghdam is not our homeland, and say, let’s hand it over to Azerbaijan, especially when Azerbaijan, in exchange, can buy several tens of billions of other products from the RF at high prices, he will go for it. If he can increase the well-being of his country on the account of Armenia, we will not be able to do anything because we are completely given to the RF’s expression of will. I do not think that our security, in this case, is somehow provided. How can a country ensure our security that sells billions of dollars of weapons to our enemy, that is not hiding the fact that it will attack on us. I do not believe that such a country has any interest in providing our security.”
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