German Amb: New Neighbourhd Progm Unaffected by Euro Const Processes

ACCORDING TO GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO RA, PROCESSES CONNECTED WITH
EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION WON’T HAVE IMPACT ON NEW NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM

YEREVAN, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN. More than tens of local NGOs took part
in the conference on the subject “Civil Society of Armenia and
European Neighborhood European Union Program” held on June 7 by the
Club of Economic Journalists NGO. Mentioning the importance of holding
the conference, Heike Renate Peitsch, German Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary to Armenia, said that the conference shows how
much the Armenian public and NGOs are interested in the discussion of
the European Neighborhood program, which, in essence, is a program of
development of a civil society. The ambassador mentioned that the
declining of the European Constitution in France and Holland can’t
have any impact on the development or the future of the
above-mentioned program. According to her, the future of Europe from
point of view of the Constitution will be decided during the European
Commission’s meeting that will take place next week in Luxemburg.
Tigran Jrbashian, Director of the Center for European Policy and Legal
Consultations, mentioned that the main goal of the European
Neighborhood program is to work out a concrete agenda in relations
with the EU for the term of 3-5 years. It will help to create a zone
of well-being and neighborly relations within the framework of new EU
borders and out of them. According to T.Jrbashian, the main clauses of
the EU program on the part of Armenia chiefly concern increase in
efforts aimed at poverty reduction, protection of environment,
stopping of the work of the ANPP.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS