Interfax, Russia
Dec 27 2013
Karabakh unrelated to Armenia’s accession to Customs Union – Armenian PM
YEREVAN. Dec 27
The problem of Nagorno-Karabakh should not be an obstacle for Armenia
in joining the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union, Armenian Prime
Minister Tigran Sargsyan said.
“The issue of Karabakh has been discussed in the context of Armenia’s
accession to the Customs Union. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
has raised this subject and received an answer from Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan that there are no and cannot be checkpoints between
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh,” Sargsyan said at a press conference on
Friday.
Speaking about Armenia’s accession to the Customs Union earlier,
Nazarbayev pointed to the problem of a border between Armenia and
Nagorno-Karabakh in connection with the unsettled conflict.
The Armenian prime minister said in commenting on this, “It is wrong
to mix political matters with the matter of Armenia’s accession to the
Customs Union and economic issues.”
The issue of Nagorno-Karabakh was not raised and was not discussed
during negotiations on Armenia’s accession to the World Trade
Organization (WTO) and negotiations on a deep and comprehensive free
trade area with the EU, he said.
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