ARMEN SMBATIAN: COMMONWEALTH WITH ARCHAIC MENTALITY UNREAL

Pan Armenian News
30.04.2005 07:45

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “I agree that the CIS, as a structure of transitional
times, is gradually going down to history yielding to immediate
relations between the member-states”, Armenian Ambassador to Russia
Armen Smbatian stated when responding to PanARMENIAN.Net reporter’s
question during the online interview on OpenArmenia.com. In his words,
after the collapse of the USSR, all the republics hurried to separate
and now are looking for ways to form a new union. However nowadays
it is impossible to form a commonwealth with archaic mentality,
the pressure of which is still too strong. Thus, we should build
relations afresh preserving the common norms and principles, the
Armenian diplomat said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress