EUROPE IS NOT A KINDERGARTEN, NO ONE CAN BE DRAGGED TO IT BY FORCE:
ARMENIAN MP
Yerevan, May 29. ArmInfo. “Europe is not a kindergarten, no one can be
dragged to it by force,” said MP Shavarsh Kocharyan, Leader of the
National Democratic Union of Armenia at a seminar “European System of
Values As an Expression of National Interests of European States:
National-Democratic Values Ratio in Europe” at the Congress Hotel
Monday.
The point is whether Armenia needs to pass the long way of European
countries to the present democratic system or it can attain the
admission to the European family “just jumping over stages” like
Slovenia, Poland, Baltic states did and like Bulgaria and Romania
will do in 2007, Shavarsh Kocharyan said.
Using the term “Europe,” not only the 25 EU member-states and the
nominees to this organizations are meant, but also Switzerland,
Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Norway. The countries that have accepted
the European system of values, the corner stone of which are human
rights protection, scattering of power among different branches and
observance of Christian ideals, are considered European
states. Armenia should apply to “its roots, to the Christianity” to
count on future admission to the European Union. It must not imitate
integration into Europe and democracy as the response of European
community will be negative in this case, Shavarsh Kocharyan said.
In his turn, Head of the Caucasian Media Institute, political expert,
Alexander Iskandaryan, said the way to Europe is not a way to
democracy. EU moves from democracy and from resolution by elected
bodies to resolutions by bureaucratic, administrative bodies. Besides,
the way to European Union does not mean a way to capitalism. Classical
capitalism is currently observed in Armenia, while the EU
member-states experience real socialism. The course of formation of
national states of European type extends from West to East, that is
why, Turkey will join EU someday. Armenia will do it in some 50 years,
Iskandaryan said.
Further on the existence of really national countries at the EU, the
political expert declared: “Where are the Serbs of ‘Voevoda’? Why can
Croatians do what, for instance, Azerbaijanis cannot in Nagorny
Karabakh, from the point of view of Europe?” The matter is the
location of Croatia as many Europeans can easily occur, for instance,
in Germany via Croatia, Iskandaryan said. At the same time, Europe is
a multi-level culture of resolving conflict situations in a flexible
peaceful way. Any country can join it, changing itself as “Europe is
not the Santa Claus to bring gifts,” Alexander Iskandaryan declared.