MEETING IN THE NA STANDING COMMITTEE ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
National Assembly
Nov 10 2009
Armenia
On November 9 the Chairperson of the NA Standing Committee on European
Integration Ms. Naira Zohrabyan received the General Secretary of
the European International Movement Mr. Diogo Pinto.
Mr. Zohrabyan highly assessed the contribution of the European
International Movement, which was still created in 1948 for building
united Europe. In her conviction, the circumstance that Armenia was the
first to become part of the European International Movement among the
6 countries of the Eastern Partnership proves that the European values
form an important part of the Armenian value system. In the format of
the Eastern Partnership Ms. Zohrabyan highlighted the creation of the
civil forum, as in parallel with state diplomacy it will be possible
to solve many problems between the societies through dialogue. The
Committee Chairperson said that Armenia is ready for multilateral
relations with the partners, which is consistently hindered because
of Azerbaijan’s non-constructive position. Touching upon the NK issue
Ms. Naira Zohrabyan said that the NKR independence and international
recognition have no alternative. According to her, the normalization of
Armenia-Turkey relations is a separate process, which has no relation
with the process of the settlement of the NK issue.
The General Secretary of the European International Movement
highlighted the circumstance that Armenia is the only country in
the region having RA European Movement. He is convinced that the
Eastern Partnership will give opportunity for more facilitating the
integration to the European Union.