ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES CANNOT CHOOSE WAY OF TURKMEN-BASHI BECAUSE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS AVAILABLE: OPPOSITIONAL POLITICIAN
Yerevan, February 7. ArmInfo. "The Armenian authorities cannot choose
the way of Turkmen-Bashi because of the international commitments
available. If our country keeps on ignoring the requirements of the
Council of Europe, it will turn out to be in a complete international
isolation", the National-Democratic party leader, RA Parliamentarian,
Shavarsh Kocharyan, said in an exclusive interview to ArmInfo.
According to him, the complete ignoring of the international
community’s requirements by Armenia, including the necessity of holding
fair and democratic elections, is impossible in view of insufficiency
of the country’s inner resources and availability of regional problems,
the economic isolation, in particular. Withdrawal from the regional
isolation is connected with the country’s full participation in the
work of international structures. By the way, it is not only a question
of political participation but the economic as well. Therefore,
Armenia’s potential is too small for it to afford the steps which the
Presidents of Belarus, Uzbekistan and even Kazakhstan do. At the same
time, the oppositionist underlined that the RA authorities have always
tried to assure their reproduction in any situation and they will
certainly try to do it during the coming May parliamentary elections.