Change of Political Field started in PragueMay 8, 2009 - 19:09 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Prospects of Eastern partnership should be approached in terms of Euro Atlantic integration of the post-soviet states, said the deputy general director of the Strategic Culture Fund Andrey Areshev. According to the expert, when European states and standing behind them the US suggest certain initiatives, they first of all pursue own interests.Answering the question of a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, what specific interests, political or economical he means, Mr. Areshev stressed, that fight for energy resources takes place first of all. "It is talked of the fight for energy resources and their transportation routs with further radical change of the format of political landscape of those countries and possible placement of NATO infrastructure objects", concluded Andey Areshev. Eastern Partnership Summit opened on May 7 in Prague as an initiative of Euro commission. The program is approved on December 3 of 2008 and involves 6 post-soviet countries, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |