POST-SOVIET STATES DELEGATIONS FEEL ALIEN IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

PanARMENIAN.Net
05.02.2009 18:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Becoming a member of an international organization,
a country voluntarily undertakes commitments to the given structure,
an Armenian MP said.

"After the USSR decline, post-soviet states did not have alternative to
international organizations. However, given its geopolitical authority,
the Russian Federation can be bolder during international discussions
than other post-soviet delegations," Armen Ashotyan, chairman of the
RA NA standing committee on education, science, culture and sports,
said during today’s "Membership in international organizations:
a tool of pressure on sovereign states or support to democracy
development?" TV space bridge.

At the same time he emphasized that delegations from CIS countries
should still learn to work within international structures. "A joint
campaign is needed to make Europeans revise their engaged opinion on
the CIS countries," Ashotyan said.