ARMENIAN POLITICAL EXPERT SEES NO NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER OPENING

ArmInfo
2009-04-08 15:14:00

Armenian political expert, Director for National and International
Studies, Richard Giragosyan, said at today’s press-conference, that
he sees no negative consequences of Armenian-Turkish border opening.

‘If Turkey opens the border to Armenia, our country will win especially
in the economic sense. Armenia will be given an opportunity to develop
agriculture as well as energy’, – he said.

Giragosyan thinks that development of economical competition in
Armenia is another serious plus from opening of the border. He also
added that opening of the border is dangerous for such ‘deseases’
as corruption and the oligarchic system in the country. ‘Opening
of the Armenian-Turkish border will be become a medicine against
the closed economic system of Armenia. It will also have a positive
effect at domestic political life of the country, as Armenia is in
the political deadlock. Neither the government not the authorities
can find the relevant strategical resolving of the problem, and in
fact the country is against the dilemma: either to go the democratic
way of development or the authoritarian’, – Giragosyan said.