Author: Kalantarian Kevo

NAGORNO KARABAJ, UNA REPUBLICA RECONOCIDA EN EL CAUCASO

Diario Jornada
23 marzo 2015, Argentina

A mas de 20 años de la tregua que puso fin a la guerra de Armenia y
Azerbaiyan por Nagorno Karabaj, este territorio del pelea para ser
reconocido como un país independiente .

A mas de 20 años de la tregua que puso fin a la guerra de Armenia y
Azerbaiyan por Nagorno Karabaj, este territorio del Caucaso equivalente
a la mitad de Tucuman, pero con apenas un decimo de su poblacion,
pelea para ser reconocido como un país independiente pese a que se
define como parte de la nacion armenia, habla armenio, usa la moneda
armenia y se financia en gran parte por las arcas vecinas de Erevan.

Las coincidencias no terminan allí. La declarada República de Nagorno
Karabaj tiene la misma bandera que Armenia, excepto por una pequeña
guarda blanca que la divide en el costado derecho.

Según explican en el gobierno, el quiebre representa la division
entre Armenia y Nagorno Karabaj y el color blanco permite “soñar”
que esa brecha podra algún día ser superada.

Este pequeño territorio del Caucaso, la region que se encuentra entre
el suroeste de Rusia, el noreste de Turquía y el noroeste de Iran,
tiene unos paisajes y una herencia cultural cristiana cautivantes, pero
no es rico en recursos naturales ni clave para la geopolítica mundial.

Sin embargo, desde finales de los años ochenta se convirtio en una
zona de tension y violencia, que desemboco en una guerra que provoco
alrededor de 30.000 muertos, alrededor de un millon de refugiados y
desplazados, la mayoría de ellos azeríes, y un debil cese del fuego,
que hasta el día de hoy sigue siendo violado.

El origen contemporaneo del conflicto se ubica en el año 1988, cuando
en Armenia y Nagorno Karabaj surge un movimiento político que reclama
la “reunificacion” de estos dos territorios.

Por entonces, toda esa region era parte de la Union Sovietica. Armenia
era una República de la URSS, mientras que Nagorno Karabaj era un
oblast -una suerte de provincia- en la vecina República sovietica
de Azerbaiyan.

En 1921, Joseph Stalin decidio que Nagorno Karabaj debía estar
dentro de Azerbaiyan y no de Armenia, pese a que la mayoría de la
poblacion eran armenios, y por eso cuando se acercaba el fin de la
URSS y los países satelites comenzaron a reclamar su independencia,
el sentimiento nacionalista pan armenio revivio.

Desde 1991, cuando Armenia y Nagorno Kabaraj declararon sus
independencias hasta la firma del cese del fuego en 1994, la guerra
devasto a este territorio que toma su nombre del ruso, el turco y
el persa.

Nagorno significa montañoso en ruso, Kara es negro en turco y baj,
jardín en persa.

Los armenios solo utilizan este nombre a veces cuando hablan con
extranjeros. Para ellos, esa “tierra santa”, como la define el propio
gobierno de Nagorno Karabagh, se llama Artsaj, como la decima provincia
del antiguo reino de Armenia durante la Edad Media.

Baku, en cambio, sostiene que la URSS incluyo a Nagorno Karabaj en su
República socialista porque esas eran tierras historicas musulmanes
azeríes y que los cristianos armenios recien se volvieron una mayoría
en los últimos tres siglos.

Dentro de Azerbaiyan, la fuerza del reclamo tambien se centra en
recordar que en el momento de su independencia el país perdio cerca
del 20% de su territorio y que mas de 800.000 azeríes tuvieron que
abandonar sus hogares y aún viven como refugiados o desplazados.

La herida nacionalista aún sigue bien patente en toda la sociedad.

Tras el cese al fuego de 1994y pese a los reclamos de la ONU, Armenia
ocupo militarmente parte del territorio que pertenecía a Azerbaiyan y
se garantizo una contiguidad territorial con Nagorno Karabaj, que con
la ayuda financiera y militar de Erevan empezo a construir un Estado.

Ningún país, excepto Armenia, lo ha reconocido hasta ahora.

HOW WILL PUTIN RESPOND TO SERZH SARGSYAN

March 24 2015

Serge Sargsyan’s statement regarding the sale of weapons to
Azerbaijan by Russia hours before leaving for Brussels to the
European People’s Party Summit was described as sensational. While,
the issue of selling weapons to Azerbaijan by Russia was raised by the
government authorities last year at different levels, and, basically,
Serzh Sargsyan’s statement is not new, this is already the fourth
statements of such kind by the government authorities of Armenia. So,
at the international media forum called “At the Foot of Mount Ararat”,
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, in response to the question of
a journalist from Moscow regarding the selling of weapons by Russia
to Armenia’s EaEU membership and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflicting
parties, noted, “Since the establishment of the Armed Forces of the
Republic od Armenia, we are grateful and thankful to our ally for
assistance. Of course, in these relations, we are concerned about
Russia’s selling weapons to Azerbaijan out of different reasons and
rationale, and the problem here is not the quality of armament. The
problem is that an Armenian fellow standing on our border or on the
line of contact realizes that they try to destroy him with Russian
weapons. This is the hardest thing, and this is what might have a
negative influence on our relations. For a long time, during 250
years, the Armenians and Russians have been living side by side,
had common enemies, foes, and have not fired at each other from
guns produced in their country. This is an issue, a problem, and
this problem must be resolved.” A few days ago, Armenia’s Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandian, in his interview to Slovenian
daily, addressing the Karabakh settlement issue, said, “We would
prefer that Russia not to sell weapons to Azerbaijan. We’re not
asking our friendly countries, partner countries to do something for
Armenia against somebody else. What we are expecting concretely on
Nagorno-Karabakh issue is not to support one side against the other,
just to be in line with the position of the international community,
expressed by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group. And Russia is
one of the three Co-Chairs.” First, it is not clear here why we do
not ask or suggest our friend, partner, moreover ally countries to do
something for Armenia something against somebody else, for example,
Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan conducts consistent work against Armenia at all
international structures and with many countries and often achieves
success. Recall assassin Safarov’s extradition, now Azerbaijan has
joined the extradition of Azerbaijanis Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz
Guliyev convicted imprisonment in Nagorno-Karabakh, and one gets the
impression that official Baku is working with the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs countries in this direction. Let’s go back, however, to
the Armenian-Russian relations. The TA government authorities cannot
revise their decision and raise the issue of termination of Armenia’s
membership to the EaEU. This is simple. Or, at least at this stage
it is not realistic to expect. The RA government authorities perhaps
yet have considered that they had made a right decision, moreover, it
is clear that it was a political decision rather than an imperative
dictated by economic convenience and expediency. If this structure
is established, yet only after then we can create bases to study the
possibilities of Armenia’s integration development under the Eurasian
framework. Armenia, however, can revise the situation in the co-
relationships with Russia by running a more sensitive policy for the
benefit of Armenia. This does not require constant public speeches
and remarks. On the contrary, Armenian government has a lot to do in
the diplomatic arena, which should not always be visible to the public.

The outcome of the work completed is preferable to be visible. Given
the fact that since last year Armenian government authorities are
publicly voicing the fact of selling weapons to Azerbaijan by Russia
and are expressing their concern, one can conclude that they do not
raise this issue to the Russian side behind the scenes and prefer to
be limited with only public messages. This can even be considered an
alarm by the RA government authorities, which hardly be welcomed in
Moscow. In his interview with Clarin newspaper in Buenos Aires, last
summer, Serzh Sargsyan for the first time publicly complained about
Russia’s selling arms to Azerbaijan. “It is a very painful subject
and our people are worried that our strategic ally sells weapons
to Azerbaijan.” While, in the last fall, referring to Russia’s arms
sales to Azerbaijan, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said,
“Supplying the enemy with ammunition is always at the core of our
attention, and we express our concerns in all instances.” The subject
of supplying Azerbaijan with ammunition has always been raised
in different instances and when working with the international
organizations, however, the level of Armenian-Russian “strategic”
relations suggests a more specific solution to this issue. Russia
is an OSCE Minsk Group co-chair country with the United States and
France, it implements a mission aimed at achieving peace through
Karabakh talks and reconciliation of the parties. But Russia does
exactly the opposite. Selling weapons to Azerbaijan, Russia pushes a
military solution, or at least its propaganda. Indeed, it is clear
to everyone that if Russia does not sell weapons to Azerbaijan,
Aliyev would purchase it from other countries to show his country
citizens how “patriotic” he is and where the money goes. But aren’t the
Armenian-Russian “strategic” relations worthy for Russia not to sell
weapons to Aliyev, like the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing United States
and France do not do it. Armenia joined the EaEU perhaps taking the
security guarantees given by Russia as a base and refused signing the
EU Association Agreement. Armenia’s and Nagorno-Karabakh’s security
has not been improved, but also our opponent country has become
more uncontrolled and cynical. Official Moscow has not responded
to Serzh Sargsyan’s already two, RA Defense Minister’s months ago,
as well as RA Foreign Minister’s quite transparent and unambiguous
statements of Russia’s selling weapons to Azerbaijan. As they say,
the ball is with the Russian side.

Emma GABRIELYAN

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ARMECONOMBANK RAISES ITS REGULATORY CAPITAL BY 1.2 BILLION DRAMS

23.03.2015 17:22

YEREVAN, March 23. / ARKA /. Armenian Armeconombank said today it has
channeled part of its long-term subordinated loan into replenishing
its regulatory capital by 1.2 billion drams. The main shareholder of
Armeconombank, Eduard Sukiasyan, replenished the regulatory capital
on March 20.

The bank said it will use the replenished capital for lending to
local companies and individual borrowers.

Armeconombank was registered in 1991. Its shareholders are EBRD -20%,
Saribek Sukiasyan – 22.6%, Khachatur Sukiasyan – 19.5% and Robert
Sukiasyan – 15.3%.

The bank’s assets at the end of 2014 stood at 91.9 billion drams, a
24% rise from the beginning of the year. Its liabilities surged by 28%
to 80.8 billion drams; the capital increased by 0.7% to 11.1 billion
drams and its net profits grew by 23.6% to 886 million drams. ($ 1 –
478.36 drams).

LEVON TER-PETROSYAN: DIASPORA SHOULD DRAFT ITS OWN GENOCIDE AGENDA; RECOGNITION NOT A CORNERSTONE OF ARMENIA’S FOREIGN POLICY

15:59, March 24, 2015

Armenia’s first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan has issued his version
of what Armenia’s official proclamation should be on the eve of the
100th anniversary of the 1915 Genocide.

Readers will recount that Ter-Petrosyanblasted the Pan-Armenian
Proclamationdrafted by Armenia’s State Commemorative Organizing
Committee last month as faulty and not in the best interests of
Armenia.

In his draft proclamation published today in the Chorrord Ishkhanutyun
newspaper, Ter-Petrosyan states that while Armenia should work to
the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide (a policy
enshrined in Armenia’s August 23, 1990 Declaration of Independence),
such recognition should not become a cornerstone of Armenia’s foreign
policy.

Ter-Petrosyan argues that Armenia’s obligation to work towards
international recognition must be regarded as a human rights issue
solely, and thus, in the context of obligations stemming from
international conventions.

The former president says that the Armenian government should not
assume to instruct the Diaspora regarding its agenda because the
worldwide Armenian community, as taxpayers and citizens, has the right
to lobby and pressure their own governments to recognize and condemn
the Genocide. Whether or not those governments accede to such demands
is an internal political matter.

Ter-Petrosyan writes that the Armenian government should not demand
that Turkey recognize the Genocide and come to grips with its history
as this too is an internal matter for Ankara.

He adds that the above does not refer to the restoration of
family/community property or to the compensation of Genocide survivor
descendants for the material losses sustained by their forbearers.

Ter-Petrosyan also calls on European governments not to regard
Turkey’s recognition of the Genocide as a prerequisite during ongoing
negotiations for its membership in the European Union. The former
president argues that Armenia is very interested when it comes to
the issue of Turkey’s integration in Europe for regional security
reasons and in terms of creating alternatives for cooperating with
the outside world.

In his draft proclamation, Ter-Petrosyan writes that “Armenia is
ready to establish diplomatic relations with Turkey based on the
Armenia-Turkey Protocols signed in Zurich on October 10, 2009 and to
cooperate in the economic, cultural and political spheres.

The only reservation, as underlined by Ter-Petrosyan, is the
appropriateness of a committee comprised of Armenian and Turkish
historians to study the historical reality of the 1915 Armenian
Genocide.

Ter-Petrosyan argues that there is not one international example where
any political issue has been resolved by a committee of historians
and that there is the fear that such a committee would descend into
platform for emotional outbursts and intense debates; something that
will complicate establishing mutual confidence between the two peoples
rather than fostering it.

In conclusion, Ter-Petrosyan says that his draft proclamation is a
personal initiative and in no way can be considered the final word
on the matter, and that he is willing to hear comments and critiques
from all interested parties.

PUTIN’S CHOICE: ARMENIA SAYS RUSSIAN LEADER’S ABSENCE FROM YEREVAN ON APRIL 24 WOULD BE “INCOMPREHENSIBLE”

ANALYSIS | 23.03.15 | 10:53

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By NAIRA HAYRUMYAN
ArmeniaNow correspondent

Late last week Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan made a very
significant statement that, according to some observers, may be the
beginning of major changes in the region.

Speaking about Armenian-Russian relations on France 24, a Paris-based
international news and current affairs television channel, the
Armenian leader said that if Russian President Vladimir Putin does
not arrive in Yerevan on April 24 – the day when Armenians will
mark the 100th anniversary of the Ottoman-era Genocide – it would be
“incomprehensible”.

“Russia has recognized the Genocide, we are strategic allies, and if
on April 24 the head of the Russian state is not with the Armenian
people that would be impossible to understand,” Sargsyan emphasized,
stressing that French President Francois Hollande has publicly
announced that he will take part the commemorative events in Yerevan.

“That is something very moving to us,” Sargsyan said, referring to
Hollande’s step.

Behind this statement is not just the indignation of Armenia over the
fact that it may turn out that the president of Russia – a strategic
ally of Armenia – will not come to Yerevan for the commemoration of the
100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Some analysts assume the
statement also contains a kind of threat – if Putin does not arrive in
Yerevan on April 24, Sargsyan may decide not to go to Moscow for May 9,
which is to be marked as the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great
Patriotic War. Putin is known to be seeking to turn Victory Day into a
triumph of his “imperial policy”. And Yerevan’s decision not to attend
the celebrations could certainly affect Armenian-Russian relations.

And there are reasons for doubts regarding Putin’s arrival on
April 24. After a telephone conversation between Putin and Sargsyan
earlier in March it was confirmed that Putin will visit Armenia,
but the Russian president’s spokesman later said that the date of the
visit has not yet been clarified. And it happened after Putin got a
telephone call from his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Media are full of “analytical” assumptions that Armenian-Russian
relations are thus on the verge of breaking. This is primarily due to
the fact that Russia is facing a choice between Turkey and Armenia, but
the atmosphere this time is such that unlike in the early 20th century
Moscow cannot betray the interests of Armenia in favor of Turkey.

Oddly enough, the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide has created
unique favorable conditions for Armenia to get out of Russian imperial
influence and fully integrate into the global politics and market. The
West, which has been pursuing a policy of ‘dual containment’ of Russia
and Turkey in recent years, is ready to defend Armenia. But for this
Yerevan needs the courage to set demands to Russia first.

Apparently, the Armenian government has started this process.

Answering a question from a Russian journalist during a major
international media forum in Yerevan last week, President Sargsyan
rather harshly accused Russia of supplying Azerbaijan with arms. In
doing so, he hinted that continued Russian arms deliveries to Armenia’s
military arch-foe may affect the Armenian-Russian relations.

Besides, on March 20, Sargsyan did not go to the Astana summit of
the big Eurasian “troika” – Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Still
before the summit Putin said that it is time to think about forming
a common Eurasian monetary union, but the Central Bank of Armenia
immediately replied that it did not consider such an option. As
a result, in Astana, it was stated that a monetary union could be
established only by three states – Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

Russia’s Putin is really facing a difficult choice: his refusal to
come to Armenia for the April 24 commemorations would endanger the
future of Russian-Armenian relations and Russian continued dominance
in the Caucasus. His arrival in Yerevan on the day is fraught with
damaged relations with Turkey: in Yerevan on April 24 there are
obviously going to be demands for the Moscow (1920) and Kars (1921)
Russo-Turkish treaties to be ruptured as it was under those treaties
that after the genocide of the Armenian people Russia and Turkey
divided the Armenian lands between themselves.

SWISS PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION TO VISIT TSITSERNAKABERD ON APRIL 24TH

13:38, 23 March, 2015

YEREVAN, 23 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. The names of the delegates of
the Confederation of Switzerland to be attending the ceremony
for the commemoration of the victims of the Armenian Genocide at
Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial will be announced in
the next two weeks. In response to “Armenpress”‘s question, Swiss
Ambassador to Armenia Lukas Gasser said the names of the delegates
are currently being specified. “The names of the official delegates
will be announced in the next two weeks. However, at this moment, I
can declare that the Parliament of Switzerland will be represented by
quite a large delegation at Tsitsernakaberd,” Gasser said. Touching
upon Armenian-Turkish relations, Gasser said he was willing to play
the role of a mediator as he had six years ago.

“Switzerland is willing, if the sides express the desire to normalize
relations. We have close ties with the Turkish and the Armenian
authorities. We are aware of the Armenian government’s recent decision
to recall the Protocols from the National Assembly, but even taking
that into account, we believe the Turkey-Armenia Protocols will serve
as the best way of normalizing relations between the two countries,”
Lukas Gasser said.

DOZENS OF EVENTS PLANNED IN ARMENIA TO HONOR 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY IN GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR – KALININ

YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. About seventy events are planned to be
held in Armenia this year to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the
victory in the Great patriotic War, director of the Russian Centre
of Science and Culture in Yerevan Mark Kalinin said.

Some events have already taken place, and a public council headed
by the Russian ambassador is formed to consider applications from
NGOs that plan events on the anniversary, Kalinin said at the eight
country conference of Russian compatriots.

A traditional holiday event will be held at Pushkin Pass as part
of the Day of Russian language events, as well as celebrations of
Day of Russia, Day of National Unity and birthdays of great Russian
poets, writers, composers will take place, Kalinin said, as cited by
Novosti-Armenia. -0-

RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA CALLS ON COMPATRIOTS’ ORGANIZATIONS FOR LARGER PRESENCE IN MEDIA SPACE

YERVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. Russian Ambassador to Armenia Ivan Volinkin,
speaking Sunday at the eighth conference of Russian compatriots in
Armenia, called Russians living in Armenia to appear more frequently in
media space. He said there are positive examples of the compatriots’
communication with the media some organizations are present in
social networks. “But this is not enough – efforts to demonstrate
their activities to public should be system-based,” the ambassador
said. “I am calling for compatriots to think over an opportunity to
create full-featured websites of organizations or a joint website of
the Coordination Council. Your positive work, about which we know,
should be visible to everybody.” The conference is organized by
the Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots’ Nongovernmental
Organizations in the Republic of Armenia with support from Russia’s
embassy in Armenia and the Russian Science and Culture Center in
Armenia. Some 15 nongovernmental and youth organizations are taking
part in the conference. —-0—–

ANNUALLY 681.100 CUM WASTEWATER FROM MINING COMPANIES DUMPED INTO VOGHJI RIVER BASIN

15:35 March 20, 2015

EcoLur

Annually 681,100 cum wastewater is annually dumped into the water
resources of the Voghji River basin because of mining activities.

“Zagezour Copper and Molybdenum Combine” CJSC developing Qajaran
copper and molybdenum mine annually dumps 473,000 cum industrial
wastewater. “Dundee Precious Metals Kapan” CJSC annually dumps 208,100
cum industrial wastewater into the Norashenik River, as Beniamin
Zaqaryan said when presenting “Action Plan Aimed to Achieve Desirable
State of Meghri River” program in the frames of UNDP “Clean Energy
and Water” program.

Besides industrial wastewater, the waste dumps occupying an area of
23 ha owned by Zangezour Copper and Molybdenum Combine and an area
of 14 ha owned by “Dundee Precious Metals Kapan” company, as well as
the areas of the tailing dumps needing reclaiming – 18 ha in Voghji
and 3 ha in Pkhrout, also have their adversary effect on the Voghji
River basin.

Lukashenko Explained Why Serzh Sargsyan Hadn’t Been Invited

Haikazn Ghahriyan, Editor-in-Chief
Comments – 22 March 2015, 01:07

On these days the Armenian political circles and media are discussing
the meeting of the presidents of the Eurasian troika Russia, Belarus
and Kazakhstan during which economic issues and the common currency
were discussed.

Although Armenia is officially a member of the Eurasian Economic
Union, Serzh Sargsyan had not been invited. Moreover, in their
statements Putin, Nazarbayev and Lukashenko “forgot” about Armenia.
Vladimir Putin, for example, announced that it is time Russia, Belarus
and Kazakhstan set to negotiate the creation of a common currency.

This circumstance is now being widely discussed, and is interesting
indeed. In fact, the members of the EEU are discussing common issues
without Armenia and without mentioning Armenia. The opinions are
different, ranging from ignoring of Armenia to de facto Armenia is not
a member of the EEU.

By the way, Serzh Sargsyan has not been invited to the next meeting of
the troika in Moscow on May 8.

Of course, the best thing would be if they forgot about Armenia, and
our country had not been a member of this union either de factor, or
de jure. Armenia joined the EEU on January 2 but during these months
it has already experienced its negative, let alone disastrous
consequences in the financial, economic, security and other spheres.

However, the problem is more complicated and dangerous than the
amnesia of the Eurasian dictators. The problem is that de facto
Armenia is not an EEU member but is tied to this organization with
binding documents. In other words, Armenia has no right to vote but
has to fulfill its obligations. And this is more dangerous than the
membership itself.

At the beginning of the process of membership to the EEU many people
in Armenia warned about this situation. It was clear from the very
beginning that Armenia would not be allowed to be a founding, that is
an equal member. In both international organizations and the EEU,
Russia needs Armenia as an “extra vote” to promote its interests, to
which Minsk and Astana were resisting actively. Eventually they
reached their goal, and Armenia, despite the efforts of the
government, did not become a founding member.

However, Russia did not make any efforts in this direction. Russia did
not need Armenia as an equal member of the EEU, its goals relating to
Armenia are different, namely to cut Armenia from the world, isolate
it and prevent diversification of its foreign political, economic and
security spheres. The point is that Russia and Armenia have different,
contradictory interests, and the independent policy of Armenia would
lead to not only a clash of interests but also weakening of Russia’s
positions in the region.

The purpose of Moscow’s policy is to rule out this situation, and it
is possible only if Armenia stops being a subject. For this purpose,
all the Russian agents, political parties, political scientists and
experts were deployed in Armenia.

Besides, the interests of Russia are in line with the interests of
Turkey and Azerbaijan which also participated in the process of
eliminating Armenia as a subject through military escalation and
threats to Armenia and Artsakh.

Russia has hung Armenia in the air to be able to implement its plans.
In addition, Russia has “insurance” in case the EEU fails. Armenia
stopped being a subject after the Armenian-Russian agreements signed
in Yerevan on 2 December 2013.

This is the situation, and it is obviously dangerous for Armenia. As
to forgetting about Armenia, Lukashenko has explained the case and the
background more than clearly. He stated at the meeting in Astana that
the decisions of the founding members must be mandatory for the new
members. The new members must implement the decisions of the troika.

The situation is complicated but not fatal. Armenia has nothing to do
in the Eurasian concentration camp indeed. This union threatens the
security and sovereignty of Armenia. The Eurasian Union is one of the
havens of the Turkic geopolitics where Armenia has no prospects.

Now the public and political thought of Armenia must work towards the
technology of withdrawing Armenia from Russian-Eurasian projects. This
is a complicated issue not only in terms of technology but also
because there is no such though in Armenia. And those who are
considered such are mostly Russian agents.

Nevertheless, the situation is not hopeless, considering that the
logic of international developments favors this process.

Currently there are signs of change of the situation, and politics
rules out unilateral things. Hence, it is possible that Armenia does
not want to attend the Eurasian events. The problem is that Armenia
must realize its value and importance.