If Armenia doesn’t stand back to join the Customs Union, after the events of the Ukraine, Russia’s isolation by the international community will have  more negative impact on Armenia.

Khachatur Kokobelyan said. “I do not share the opinion that there is a cold war, but today’s geopolitical processes shows that Armenia’s authorities and political forces must be able to provide an alternative to both the EU and the international community, which will ensure that Armenia will not be isolated.”

Khachatur Kokobelyan is sure  that the country  which has Nagorno-Karabakh problem can not afford that kind of thing.

“It is our duty to try to repair relations with the European Union and” get out “of the Customs Union.”

He does not accept  Crimea-Nagorno-Karabakh “parallels”, that both are autonomies which are trying to eliminate the consequences of the political decision by the legitimate referendum of the majority of people living in their areas.

The only similarity is the problem of self-determination, but Crimea hasn’t  a similar problem now, there is a  geopolitical struggle. In my opinion, it is  unacceptable to view Karabakh conflict  from that perspective.

He was surprised that some politicians try to generalize the Nagorno-Karabakh and the Crimea problems.

Contrary to many politicians who think  that the Ukrainian conflict during the official Yerevan maintains an undignified silence,   Kokobelyan considers that  in this case silence is appropriate.

I can clearly stated that that the silence of authorities  is  understandable. First, Armenia is a CSTO member, and in my opinion authorities haste would not be right in many cases, but that does not mean that there is no  need to evaluate  what happened in Maidan, because this process was aimed against the democracy.

As for the ruble devaluation, Khachatur Kokobelyan noted. “Russian nationalism ends there  where begins the capital markets.”

The fact that Russia has lost about 65 billion U.S. dollars per day, was predictable.

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