Candidate Says European Integration Priority For Armenia

CANDIDATE SAYS EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PRIORITY FOR ARMENIA

Panorama.am
17:59 16/04/2007

Khosrov Harutunyan, candidate in election community 10, told Urbat
Club that Armenia cannot ensure its long-term and safe development by
developing relations with only one country, no matter how friendly
those relations may be. Harutunyan obviously meant relations with
Russia. The candidate said being a landlocked country, Armenia
may secure its future only within a union where single members
will not have the opportunity to influence the country. Therefore,
integration and even membership to EU is a priority for Armenia,
the candidate said. The speaker did not exclude the importance of
developing bilateral relations, too, including with Russia and USA.

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