The reason for cancelling Medvedev’s visit. “Russia does not want to
waste time on useless visits.”
September 2 2014
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will not visit Armenia on
September 8-9. And as to why the visit of Russian Prime Minister is
cancelled, today, some interpretations were made by the Prime Minister
of Armenia, Hovik Abrahamyan, specifically stating the following:
“Discussion of Armenia’s accession to the EaEU is moved to the
presidential level, and will be discussed at the Minsk meeting of EaEU
member countries’ presidents on October 10.” Aravot.am asked the
expert of “Political and International Studies Center”, Ruben
Mehrabyan, whether the official reasoning is satisfactory, or there
are other sub-contexts in cancellation of Medvedev’s visit. He
replied, “If this visit does not contain any new milestone in the
process of involving Armenia in the Eurasian Union, then it’s a
pointless visit. I do not think that Russia currently is in the
situation that can spend time on useless visits. At least, Armenia at
the moment does not enter into these priorities, and Russia has more
important issues. This was a pointless visit, and actually it was
either delayed or simply canceled.” To our observation of whether as a
milestone we can state that the processes of Armenia’s accession to
the Eurasian Union again reached a deadlock, Mr. Mehrabyan responded,
“If we are talking about the strategic deadlock, then we are in the
strategic deadlock since September 3, and in this sense, nothing has
been changed. We see what internal processes there are in the Eurasian
Union, or rather, in the structure, which is trying to become a
Eurasian Union. For internal organic reasons, the design of this Union
is not operating. Its creation is under a serious question, it raises
questions that have no answers, but the answers are obvious. Actually,
it is a pointless structure that remained on paper, and it’s time to
throw the paper into the wastebasket.” Ruben Mehrabyan does not think
that the presidents’ meeting is going to be a “magic” one. To our
question of whether the failure of the establishment of the EaEU
generates from our interests, or vice versa, and whether its failure
does not issue a challenge to our security, which was constantly
emphasized by official Yerevan, Ruben Mehrabyan replied, “Putting an
end to all those rumors about the Eurasian Union actually generates
from everyone’s interests, including Russia’s, in the sense that it
wastes pointless energy on something that is not working, and if they
stop being engaged in such pointless things, they would have free time
to be engaged in real affairs. With regard to security, on the
contrary, Armenia’s security suffered with the decision voiced on
September 3, and the end of this process will open up wide
opportunities for Armenia.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
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