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Houry Mayissian
Houry Mayissian is a communications professional with journalism and public relations experiences in Dubai, Beirut, and Sydney. She has studied European politics and society at the University of Oxford, specializing on the democratic reform process in Armenia as part of its European integration. She is currently based in Yerevan.
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A very smart decision. Sarkisian did the right thing.For Armenia joining EU will mean death.
Probably the right choice, this way Armenia protects itself from territory grabs like Georgia has suffered. Armenia needs to make it clear that Russia must back 100% Armenian control of Nagorno-Krabakh.
this is one of the reasons RoA Gov wisely chose the only rational path at this time:
[Armenian NPP operation term extended despite EU objections]
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/169945/
Instead of objecting, EU should give $5 Billion to RoA so a new, modern NPP can be constructed. Maybe then they can get some traction with the average citizen of Armenia.
Can you warm yourself in cold winters of Armenia with European style democracy ?
How will European democracy compensate for the loss of about 40% of Armenia’s electric energy needs if the current NPP is shut down ?.
Can you light the City of Yerevan with democracy ?
At the cost of repeating what I wrote before on another thread here…
Pres.Serge Sargsyan -hopefully-bargained hard for better gas prices, re-opening of Soviet time factories in RA with heavy Russian investments(we gave 200 thousand martyrs to the hairenagan Baderazm(Fatherland WAR II)exceptions Customs duties wise-but I clearly remember ,i wrote about this on Armenian products shipped to Russian FED. etc.,
Otherwise,yes a better decision,especially because so far we have not seen EU or USA giving Armenia AID over a Billion bucks..at one time.Georgia got exactly one B ,when pres. Bush visited Tbilisi not too lon g ago.Armenia gets 60 -80 million bucks when ARF,plus AAA go down on their knees in D.c. for Aid to Ra and Artsakh.Time to be a bit smart in bargaining…
If ,however Putin did not give anything in return and S.Sargsyan returned home empty handed…that was a BAD DECISION.
Bravo President Sargsyan! And congratulations Armenia! Membership in the EU was never a real option for Armenia.What Armenia did not need was a haphazard entry into a sinking ship like the EU. The multicultural/multiracial theme park known as the EU is imploding under its artificially induced weight. As beleaguered nations such as Greece, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Italy and Romania have shown, Armenia’s membership into the EU only promised to financially enslave the country to Western banksters, increase the numbers of homosexuals, invite third world migrants into the country and replace Armenia’s homegrown “oligarchs” with bigger and nastier oligarchs based in New York, London, Brussels, Istanbul and Tel Aviv. Armenia’s existence in the south Caucasus is made possible by Russia. Armenia and Russia will remain in a strategic embrace. Geographically, politically, culturally and genetically Armenia is an Eurasian nation. Therefore, Armenia’s natural place is within the Russia-led Eurasian Union. Better days lie ahead.
Greetings,
I agree with the comments expressed by Levon, NordskeDiv, Avery, Pal Gaytsag and harutik.
As a banker for the past 54 years in international banking and economist the choice is natural.
I have worked as a consultant in the Rof A in 1992 and 1993, in the early days of the new independent Armenia, commissioned by TACIS in Brussels as well as invited by first president Levon Der Bedrossian and actual PM Dikran Sarkssian for financial and economic consultations in 1991.
Democracy is a complicated term that has many faces and interpreted very circumstancially by various nations. Real democracy starts at home, in the family of each unit of the society where adults decide within family. Do we have that in the Armenian society? (This applies to all nations by the way). Democracy starts in each organizational unit of business and economic unit…
What Armenians need is to work hard, hard, hard and produce, innovate and depend on themselves. Our fatherland is a landlocked country. We can survive if we have good relations with nations that are friendly and cooperative in all senses of the word.
All economically advanced nations had their oligarchies in the beginning. The Japanese Zaibatsus- Mitsui, Mitsubishi Marubeni…to name the few; in the USA, the Rockfellers, Carnegies…
A few of the European nations have deceived and upset us 100 years ago. Their market size is smaller than the EEU of few CIS countries. If we become economically and financially powerful, then we look for parallel alternatives.
Cheerios to all
Russia sold weapons to Baku Sultanate but told them they can’t be used against Armenians. The proceeds of the sale covered Russian weapons shipments to Armenia. This is brilliant!!
harutik,
why are you attacking homosexuals???
I liked one commenter admitted above: “Armenia’s existence in Caucasus is made possible by Russia”. Never have truer words been spoken. I wonder why you guys have such hard time relying on your bravery and superior fighting skills that won you the first stage of Karabak War. Or are you afraid that you cannot continue antagonizing Azb and Turkey without Uncle Ivan’s protection?
Overall, yes, it was a good decision to join the Eurasian Union. But mainly because you had no choice. So it is misleading to say you CHOSE to do this. Just the way the decision was presented by Putin proves this (he called Sarkissian into his office to tell him what to do). I am surprised you express no regret over having lost your independence like this. Also, you did get nothing, and WILL get nothing, from Putin in exchange. If he makes you surrender Karabak tomorrow (thanks to a direct deal with Baku), what are you going to do? You are stuck with Russia no matter what. What I am hearing from you is that Armenia as an independent nation is not a feasible project. What if Russia changes its mind tomorrow? What if they start having their own problems? It is a horrible thing to depend for your existence on someone to whom you are only moderately important. What if the next Russian leader after Putin does not share the colonial mindset in terms of “keeping outposts in Caucasus”?
Kerim,
A nation is free to choose or change its national security prerogatives. I don’t fully agree that Armenia’s existence in Caucasus is made possible by Russia, because Armenia’s existence as a counterbalance to Turkic influence and expansionism is of importance that extends beyond Russia. But if at this point in history Armenia’s existence is made possible by Russia, then be it. As an Azeri, you will never understand the deep feelings of insecurity by a genocide-stricken nation. So please don’t brim over Armenia’s dependence on Russia. Think, instead, how dependent AzerBEYjan is on oil companies and what you are going to do when oil drains out. You may say you get your petrodollars out of your marriage with these companies. Well, and we get our security guarantees in an environment where one Turkic neighbor is an unrepentant genocide perpetrator and thief of ancestral lands and another Turkic neighbor is its like-minded extension as attributed in savagery in Sumgait, Kirovabad, Maragha, and Baku.
“Antagonizing Azb and Turkey” shows the level of Azeri cynicism. Turks barbarously slaughter and forcibly deport 2 mln innocent people, while Azeris receive as a gift Armenian Nakhichevan and Artsakh and then, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, repeat the barbarity of their ethnic kin, but it is us, Armenians, who antagonize you?! God damn…
It was understood that Armenia would be forced to make preference for the EEU over the EU due to a host of obvious reasons. My only concern is that the EEU may become Stage 2 after the EU in the globalist plan to divide the world into several sectors in order to suppress national exclusivity and impose control over the functionality of national governments.
Stage 3 is the American Union. Asian-Pacific and African Unions will follow.
Karim, I wonder why EU and Russia`s Putin never fight over your beloved oil Sheikhdom!!They know that your oil man has unfinished businesses with Iran!!
Neither Russia and nor EU has common border with Armenia!! Armenia surrounded with sea of hostile Islamic (Turkic) nations, where any time their dictatorial respective regimes can be exploded, and indirectly may affect Armenia’s national security!! Armenia should maintain good relationship with EU and Russia and develop European style parliamentary democracy system.
In the future when Armenia’s population matured up with democracy, then peace, happiness, prosperity, and respect, will be replaced with today’s politically motivated “unions”, who are interested only, for certain selfish political destructive wills!