"TRANSBORDER COOPERATION SHOULD BE DEVELOPED BETWEEN ARMENIA AND GEORGIA," CHAIRMAN OF COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION OF ARMENIAN BELIEVES
Noyan Tapan
Oct 22, 2007
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The international workshop titled
"Euroregio as a modern instrument of transborder cooperation"
started in Yerevan on October 22 on the initiative of the Communities
Association of Armenia and the "OST-EURO" German organization, as
well as with the financial assistance of the Ministry of Economic
Affaires of Germany.
According to the information provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by
Emin Yeritsian, the Chairman of the Communities Association of Armenia,
the goal of the event is to establish a transborder cooperation
between Armenia and Georgia: through creating "Euroregios", based on
the example of the experience of other countries. He declared that at
present such a practice is being applied in the Western Europe, where
two different border structures (office-organizations) under the title
"Euroregio" unite, create one juridical person and solve a number of
issues of the region of social, ecological, and economical character.
Accoring to Emin Yeritsian, the approval of the higher authorities of
the country is not so decisive in respect of such a cooperation: the
role of self-governmental bodies is great. It was mentioned that all
the countries, which have signed the "Transborder Cooperation Charter"
of the Council of Europe allow their self-governmental bodies to create
"Euroregio". In the conviction of the Chairman of the Association,
since a transborder cooperation can be developed even in case of
absence of interstate relations, it is not excluded that in case of
establishing Euroregios with Georgia, border structures of Armenia
will take similar steps in the direction of cooperating with Turkey
and Azerbaijan as well.