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    A MEETING AT CONGRESS TO FIND ARMENIA'S PLACE IN EUROPE

    Azg/arm
    26 July 05


    'There is no other issue more important for Armenia than becoming a
    democratic state'

    What is Armenia's place as it walks towards Europe? To find the answer
    to this question the Foreign Ministry of Armenia, Friedrich Ebert
    Foundation and the Armenian Center for Humanitarian Studies (ACHS)
    organized a gathering "Armenia on the way to Europe" at the Hotel
    Congress on July 23, with the presentation of a book of the same
    title.

    Tigran Torosian, chairman of the Commission on European Integration
    Issues at the National Assembly, stated that Armenia still remains a
    country in transitional period but with no serious reforms. He
    mentioned that further democratization of Armenia connected with
    constitutional changes can be put in doubt. Torosian thinks that the
    European integration should be out of question as it is important for
    the inner life of the state and for the Nagorno Karabakh issue.
    "Being part of Europe, we should not be backbenchers. Today, we need
    resolute steps", Torosian said.

    Tigran Davtian, deputy trade and economic development minister,
    pointed out that Armenia's per capita GDP has increase from $800 to
    $1200 for the last one and a half year, and Armenia lags behind
    Bulgaria, another EU candidate, by only 30-40 percent. "We are a
    European state, a member of the Council of Europe. We entered the
    European Neighborhood Project a year ago and have to follow the rules
    of the European game", Davtian said emphasizing that the EU is the
    greatest trade partner of Armenia importing 40 percent of Armenian
    goods.

    Editor-in-chief of Aravot daily newspaper Aram Abrahamian and lawmaker
    Shavarsh Kocharian shadowed the optimism of Tigran Torosian and Tigran
    Davtian by raising the issue of violation of human rights in
    Armenia. Abrahamian thinks that the key issue before deciding on
    European integration is what motivates us within the country -
    interests or values.

    "If it is the values that motivate our deeds then that's it: we shall
    join Iran, perhaps Cuba or North Korea as being motivated by values
    only sounds good but in practice, in Armenian reality, it means
    allowing the 'priests', their representatives holding the values to
    dictate their will to the society", Abrahamian said noting that in
    order to integrate into Europe we need interests to motivate us. "But
    how to contrast these interests? By means of agreements, of
    course. And dialogue is, naturally, the mechanism to come to
    agreement".

    The editor pointed out dialogue in the mass media, "The press has the
    character of monologue. Approaches of TV companies are also that of a
    monologue but not by the demand of the viewers but of the
    President". Abrahamian thinks that whole our culture is monological as
    Armenian citizens are not civic-minded and the society is feudal.

    Shavarsh Kocharian highlighted two issues: where is Armenia today and
    what issues are primary for us -- national or European. "There is no
    issue other more important for Armenia than becoming a democratic
    jural state", he underscored. The lawmaker cast doubt on the
    irreversibility of Armenia's European integration. From among the
    former Soviet countries, the Baltic States have already joined the EU
    whereas Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Byelorussia have chosen
    dictatorship. Kocharian thinks that communist Moldova, Ukraine and
    Georgia are the next standing closer to Baltic States. Russia, Armenia
    and Azerbaijan are on the junction of European democracy and Asian
    dictatorship.

    By Tatoul Hakobian



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