EASTERN PARTNERSHIP WILL TAKE SIX POST SOVIET STATES EU HOSTAGES

PanARMENIAN.Net
05.02.2009 18:44 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russia is negative about the Eastern Partnership,
a Russian politician said.

"Russia was not offered the initiative, which will take six post soviet
states hostage," Sergei Markov, member of the Russian State Duma,
said during today’s "Membership in international organizations:
a tool of pressure on sovereign states or support to democracy
development?" TV space bridge.

"Europe compels post soviet states to make choice between Russia and
the European Union. They had better reject it," he said.

European Commissioner for External Relations and ENP, Ms. Benita
Ferrero-Waldner was quoted by Russian media as saying that Russia may
be offered the Eastern Partnership along with Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus.