MANVEL SARGSYAN: THERE IS NO SMELL OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN SOUTH CAUCASUS YET
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.12.2006 14:48 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "There are separate activity lines in South Caucasus
region: it is the already mentioned EU program, that is the European
Neighborhood Policy.
Here I have to underline the fact of separate communication vectors
between the EU and regional states. The European Union also has been
lured by the predilections of individual initiatives of the regional
states," told Manvel Sargsyan, the head of ‘Kavkaz’ analytical center
during the interview to the PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, there is no
smell of regional integration in South Caucasus, instead tendencies
of separate integration lines are observed between EU programs and
the regional countries. "In the current period of global changes
the civilized world goes to any experiments for the sake to preserve
universal stability and encourage the growth of political quality of
subjects in the whole world," he stressed.
On his opinion, the old principles of stability providing system work
worse and worse and it is necessary to find methods to transform global
order on the bases of less destructive processes not to allow to appear
different uncontrollable territories. "We notice, that these issues
occupy more and more place in the policies of Western countries. And
the South Caucasus, in this regard, is not the biggest problem.
We should not also forget about the chain of disruptiveness – Iraq,
Iran and Lebanon. The Caucasian problems are less local. Still there is
one more moment – the relationship of Caucasian states with Russia. For
example, Russia has already put a question in front of Armenia – make
your choice. And what it means is difficult to understand not only
for the people of our region but also for Russia herself. I do not
think that anybody fully understands what is right, what is not. The
work is going on as a habit, and the characters of reciprocal demands
do not display well-shaped logic: this is the specific character of
period of changes. From time to time we notice that the presidents of
regional countries just do not understand how to behave, what others
want from them. There is no iron logic – there are only amorphous
approaches and bad knowledge of own interests," Sargsyan underlined.