CIS chief stresses need for reform – Armenian agency

Arminfo
4 Mar 05

YEREVAN

The Armenian authorities have no claims to the CIS, the CIS executive
secretary, Vladimir Rushaylo, told a news conference in Yerevan
today. “There should be grounds for claims and I have heard no claims
to the CIS at any level, including from the Armenian president,” he
said.

Asked about the CIS’s ability to survive in the wake of the flower
revolutions, Rushaylo said that the technologies that have been worked
out by the West and European institutes for a long time have to some
extent influenced the situation in the CIS. Noting that he did not
intend to dramatize the situation, Rushaylo said that there are some
signs that should be responded.

Asked whether GUUAM [the alliance of Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan,
Azerbaijan and Moldova] could split the CIS, he said that he did not
think so. “I would not like to comment on statements by other regional
organizations. We should have a well-formed view of our own in this
regard. We have views about prospects of the CIS development, and this
view has been formed not at the level of the executive committee but
at the level of heads of state. We adjust our political positions at
meetings precisely in this format,” Rushaylo said.

However, he said there were some problems with implementing adopted
decisions. “At the current stage, the adopted regulations have to be
amended. Nothing can remain unchanged, and you understand that the CIS
was set up 10 years ago, and the legal documents adopted at that time
need to be amended,” Rushaylo said.

[Passage omitted: CIS to learn from EU experience]

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress