ARMENIAN BUSINESSMEN ARE NARROW-MINDED: AEPLAC HEAD

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Nov 13 2009
Armenia

Armenia and EU intend to sign an agreement on free trade regime
creation, the leader of Armenian-European AEPLAC advice center Alexei
Sekarev told the journalists. According to him, this procedure will
take 5 years.

AEPLAC is interested in giving Armenian businessmen an idea of the
new regime, Sekarev stated, adding that the accord on opening the
talks is already reached.

He underlined that it particularly concerns the fields of
standardization, protection of rights on intellectual property,
technical obstacles in trade and sanitary control. "Armenian
businessman should first of all be aware of existing regimes
and criteria to conform to while exporting products to Europe,"
Sekarev said. He pointed out that generally Armenian businessmen are
narrow-minded in business planning. "They do not plan for 3-5 years,
hence to get a higher level in relations with EU further, we have to
start thinking over this now," he concluded.