Why don’t the Armenian authorities respond to Glazyev’s assessments?
Of course, first of all, it would be better if the economists have tried to respond to the assessments of the exclusive interview made by RF President’s Advisor Sergey Glazyev to “Aravot”, by presenting a comparative analysis regarding the EU free market, and then the economic indicators between RF and CU member countries, and in their presence, the possible achievements of the CU activities. However, the content of the interview by Russian official is worth of political estimates, but so far neither the Government, nor political forces have not respond to it, which also can not be considered a surprise. While Glazyev’s full interview is an explicit expression of absolute contempt against Armenia as a state, Armenian’s power and political aspect, as well as the society of Armenia.
First, Glazyev has apparently opened the brackets as to what “leverages” were employed to keep Armenia back from signing the EU Association Agreement, when he noted that the Common Economic Area enables Cu to receive gas by internal market prices, that the exporting duties will not be employed in the Eurasian Economic Area, that the oil and oil products will be given to Armenia without the customs duties, as well as he mentions the general market for electricity and transport services. As for the issue of the right of Armenia, as a sovereign state, to negotiate around a document with the EU, here, the vocabulary of the Russian official goes beyond all permissible limits. First of all, who knows who had attributed the powers and rights to him, the Russian official was trying to save Armenia from the EU “pressures”. It appears that Armenian was offered to become an EU “carriage”, and Moscow, in fact, saved us from Brussels, and not the RF but the EU has pushed Armenia to make a decision on joining the CU, and in order to preserve the independence and the balanced relationship with RF, according to Russian officials, Serzh Sargsyan was compelled to make respective political decision under this pressure.
The Russian official “concerned” with Armenia’s maintaining sovereignty, with regard to the widespread belief that by joining the CU Armenia will lose sovereignty, opposes, “Such rumors are usually led by people who want to drag the respective country under the EU or NATO domination,” and brings the example of Ukraine… On this occasion, let’s just remind you that. on August 30, the former Prime Minister of Armenia, MP of the Armenian National Congress Party Hrant Bagratyan, in his interview to Tert.am, speaking about the EU Association Agreement and sovereignty of Armenia, said, “At the moment, as far as I’m informed, the said Agreement does not decrease our sovereignty, and does not hamper in execution of our commitment assumed towards other countries.”
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And all that is happening in these days in Ukraine by RF, different assessments can be voiced against RF without sparing any rigid formulation. The same Glazyev, literally two days ago, with the intention as said in his own language “to drag” Ukraine to CU, did not exclude that CU member countries can establish a visa regime with Ukraine if the latter does not join this structure. This information was immediately followed by the reaction of Ukraine, now they have to, it seems, speak with Russians in an understandable language. Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov announced about the possibility of completely refusing from the Russian gas, adding that it could happen a lot sooner than 10 years.
The interesting part is as to in what unique irony the Russian official speaks about the right of Armenia to making this-or-that decision or making the choice, and with what sense of “responsibility” and “care” towards Armenia he speaks. “… And, what is offered to Armenia by the EU within the framework of the Association Agreement is to blindly execute the EU directives, without having any opportunity to influence on the formation of these directive, to comply the legislation with the EU, and a supranational committee should be formed, partly with EU representatives, and in part with Armenia representative, with which everything should be agreed.” Then he represents the CU’s advantages, “It is obvious that the entry into the Customs Union, Armenia preserves its independence, and has the opportunity to prevent any decision-making that is contrary to its interests, Brussels dictatorship will prevail in the EU.” He explains very clearly what he means by bringing the example of another sovereign state, Ukraine, and intervening in the internal affairs of another country. “The U.S. Ambassador does not stop intimidating the Ukraine that it should join the EU, every week Yanukovich accepts European Commissioners. European officials do not leave Ukraine in general, they are always there. European Ambassadors are very actively “processing” Ukrainian politicians. That is, the terror is coming more from them.”
As with what diligence the RF “processed” figures and experts are acting, Glazyev is mentioning about them, on the same day, in his interview to “Echo of Moscow” radio station, expressing an opinion the RA President stood back in time and called his government to order. “Armenia was almost pushed into the conveyer, but with the help of our experts, we helped our Armenian colleagues to analyze the text of the agreement with the EU.”
Well, the fact that the Russian official accuses RA authorities and the negotiators with the EU that they were not familiar with the text of the EU Association Agreement, which he states that “the Armenian negotiators have not even bothered themselves to read the texts,” it would be good, of course, if the Government of Armenia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have responded to this absurd statement, at least through their press speakers, otherwise, it leaves the impression that the RF officials have “disclosed” the risks of the text of the EU Association Agreement to the RA authorities, and now they are informing the public from what destructions they have saved Armenia that, in fact, does not have the power capable to realize it… After all, bringing Kaliningrad region as an example for Armenia seems a trivial matter. We must still be thankful that in his interview Glazyev had once or twice generously, but formally noted that Armenia is a “sovereign state.”
He could not have told it either, could he?…
Emma GABRIELYAN
