News
Show news feed


YEREVAN.- Signing of the new agreement with the European Union should not be considered in terms of concession-mutual concession, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said in an exclusive interview with Armenia TV, speaking about the comprehensive and enhanced partnership agreement with the EU.

“Signing of the new agreement with the European Union should not be considered in terms of concession-compromise. That's my conviction,” Sargsyan said, adding that healthy logic has really won, and if any party signs an agreement, it means that the sides achieve at least any success.

He noted that the dialogue has never been considered a contradiction for us. 

"We have always been convinced that we must dialogue with both the West and the East, specifically with Russia. This is a good opportunity to briefly discuss the history of the negotiations. Many people who had expressed their opinions before the signing of the agreement, did not even bother looking back at the past.”

According to the president, the EU announced the Eastern Partnership Program in 2010 and since then Armenia was negotiating to benefit from the results of the project. 

"At the same time, integration processes were taking place on the CIS territory. When we started the first stage of negotiations, we frankly told the Europeans that Russia is our ally, and our economy is linked with the Russian economy and we cannot negotiate over an agreement that could hamper our economic ties. There was a moment, when the negotiator began to make the terms and noted that some provisions of their agreement contradict to some provisions of the EAEU. We had a task to choose between the two economic markets, and we had to remind them that in 2010 we agreed so. And we could risk. We have done everything transparently," said Sargsyan.

The president noted that he is very glad that the agreement was signed. 

“The problem lays elsewhere. If we think about the contradictions that might happen someday, though we have to think about it, we will not achieve much. After all, the EU has a huge market, and our goal should be an export promotion. We should produce and export many products. And we can equally export these products both to the EU and to the EAEU,” Sargsyan noted.

 

!
This text available in   Հայերեն and Русский
Print
Read more:
All
Photos