CLOSER RELATIONS BETWEEN ARMENIA AND EU POSE NO THREAT TO ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS

ARKA
March 11, 2010

YEREVAN, March 11. /ARKA/. Development of ties between Armenia
and European Union doesn’t put Armenian-Russian relations in
danger, Goran Lennmarker, special rapporteur on Karabakh and OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly’s special envoy for Georgia, said Wednesday
at NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Rose-Roth seminar in Yerevan.

He said that Armenia is an independent state and decides independently
with whom to cooperate.

He is convinced that closer ties with European Union pose no threat
to Armenian-Russian relations.

He thinks there is no competition.

Speaking about European Union’s Eastern Partnership initiative,
Lennmarker said that this program let Armenia decide how close its
ties with European Union will be.

He said that his homeland, Sweden, welcomes the possibility of
Armenia’s membership in the European Union.

He added hat Armenia is a European country and pointed out adoption
of Christianity by Armenians yet in 301 as evidence of that.