Torkunov: one of advantages of Eurasian Integration is that its rules set by process participants
22.07.2013,
19:42
YEREVAN, July 22. /ARKA/. Anatoly Torkunov, the head of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, speaking Saturday in Yerevan at an Internet conference on Armenia’s geopolitical role in the system of the contemporary international relations, said that one of advantages of Eurasian integration is that its rules are set by the process participants themselves.
YEREVAN, July 22. /ARKA/. Anatoly Torkunov, the head of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, speaking Saturday in Yerevan at an Internet conference on Armenia’s geopolitical role in the system of the contemporary international relations, said that one of advantages of Eurasian integration is that its rules are set by the process participants themselves.
“The European Union has firm rules, and it will be not easy to play by these rules if to concentrate orientation only on the European Union, while Eurasian integration began not so long ago, and all its participants take an equal part in the decision-making process,” he was quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying.
The Eurasian cooperation, he added, is based on a very strong footing, which had been created for decades and in some cases for centuries.
Torkunov said that the rules of the Customs Union and the rules offered for the associative membership in the European Union are different on many points.
He said harmonization process is under way now, and it will continue also as part of preparations for a new basic agreement between the European Union and Russia, “but today the adoption of the European Union’s new rules creates gigantic problems in cooperation with the Custom Union member countries”.
“There are many circumstances, such as phytosanitary norms, technical regulations and many other things. That is why it is very important to make choice, taking into account pragmatism and human aspects in this situation.”
He said that at some stage, the requirements of the European Union, the Eurasian Economic Space and the Customs Union will be in tune with each other, but this is a time-consuming process. ---0----
“The European Union has firm rules, and it will be not easy to play by these rules if to concentrate orientation only on the European Union, while Eurasian integration began not so long ago, and all its participants take an equal part in the decision-making process,” he was quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying.
The Eurasian cooperation, he added, is based on a very strong footing, which had been created for decades and in some cases for centuries.
Torkunov said that the rules of the Customs Union and the rules offered for the associative membership in the European Union are different on many points.
He said harmonization process is under way now, and it will continue also as part of preparations for a new basic agreement between the European Union and Russia, “but today the adoption of the European Union’s new rules creates gigantic problems in cooperation with the Custom Union member countries”.
“There are many circumstances, such as phytosanitary norms, technical regulations and many other things. That is why it is very important to make choice, taking into account pragmatism and human aspects in this situation.”
He said that at some stage, the requirements of the European Union, the Eurasian Economic Space and the Customs Union will be in tune with each other, but this is a time-consuming process. ---0----
