ARMENIA PLAYS STABILIZING ROLE IN BLACK SEA REGION
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
27.05.2009 15:24 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia plays stabilizing role in Black Sea region,
Ara Nranyan, ARFD Advisor on Economic Issues, told a PanARMENIAN.Net
correspondent. "BSEC has 12 member states, some of them being CIS
countries. Being one of South Caucasian states, Armenia plays an
important stabilizing role," he said.
In the meantime, Mr. Nranyan finds BSEC the only international
organization where all countries (including those having territorial
problems) adhere to constructive positions. "It’s noteworthy that
this is the only organization where Turkey conducts constrictive
policy in relation to Armenia," Nranyan said.
Destructive policy, according to ARFD representative, is conducted
by Azerbaijan. "This is seen in their attempts to subordinate the
organization’s objectives to their political goals, something other
members states do not approve of," Nranyan noted, adding that the
organization’s objective was economic cooperation and most problems
discussed there concerned regional development issues.
Armenia became BSEC member state in November 2008.
Black Sea Economic Cooperation was established in 1992, with Armenia
being one of the founding states. Currently, the organization has
12 member states: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Greece,
Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. BSEC
observer states are Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt,
France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and US.