During his speech in the PACE plenary session in autumn, the RA President Serzh Sargsyan, referring to the issue of civilization choice of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership countries, announced that we are not ready to consider the issue in that dimension, and detailed, “From the outset of the Eastern Partnership initiative and even before, we have stated and continue to state that we aspire to have the closest possible and widest possible relations with the EU, and to be close to the EU. This policy will not be terminated. As is known, Armenia has a close allied relationship with Russia. Armenia is not building new relationships at the expense of the relationship with her strategic ally; in the same vein, we will not build relationships with other partner, which might be aimed against our other partners. We will continue to develop in parallel relationships and interests with our key partners.”
Aravot.am inquired from Ruben Mehrabyan, political scientist, expert of “Political and International Studies”, whether the RA President’s view was convincing and whether it would be possible to maintain this political line under this created situation.
Mr. Mehrabyan responded, “The words that were said by Serzh Sargsyan at PACE was within the so-called circumference of September 3 statement. To wish to have closer relations with Europe, its scope is a bit abstract, especially when it says that it should not build relationship with one partner at the expense of the other. Here, there is a lack of sincerity, too. Armenian-Russian relations are not only at the expense of the relations of Armenia-West, but also at the expense of interest of Armenia. Moreover, everything is called to serve for these relationships in brackets, these unhealthy relationships.”
To our question whether it is also possible that Europe has noticed this lack of sincerity, Mr. Mehrabyan responded, “We should not make fool of the Europe. There are almost no fools in Europe, and I do not think that Serzh Sargsyan was unaware of it, and was trying to make fool of the Europeans. Simply, he said as much as he could tell based on the accident, which took place on September 3.”
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