Armenia’s Accession to EEU has Positive Economic Results

• 05.23.2015, 17:34
•  EEU,  Armenia

On May 22 in Yerevan, in the "Noravank" Research and Educational Foundation took place a round table on the topic of "Armenia, Eurasian Integration and Challenges". Mater’s and PhD  students discussed with professionals in the sphere the issues relating to Eurasian integration, economic peculiarities  of the integration  process and information wars.

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Tatul Manaseryan, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Ashot Tavadyan, Director of the "Noravank" Research and Educational Foundation, Gagik Harutyunyan and  PhD of Sociology, Samvel Mankukyan made speeches. The round table was organized by NGO "Integration and Development" and "Noravank" Research and Educational Foundation. Representatives of the embassies of Russia and Kazakhstan in Armenia also took part at the meeting.

Tatuk Manaseryan spoke about the economic atmosphere that was formed after the establishment of the EEU and about the steps the Union still is to pass through:

"Accession to the EEU is a demand of the time and the method to adequately react to the current challenges of the world economy. In case of proper and efficient organization within the Union, the EEU can become an important expression of regionalism in the Post-Soviet area as a counterbalance to economic and political globalization," said Manaseryan.  He also commented on the importance of economic cooperation and competition that can result in weakening the local monopolies and decreasing the prices of goods and services. According to Manaseryan, the important guarantee for fulfilling the goals is the scientific justification of adopted political decisions.

Ashot Tavadyan, in his turn, emphasized the economic security, which will guarantee efficient economic integration:

 "The accession of Armenia to the EEU from the perspective of economic security has positive results: it gives an opportunity to get energy resources with lower prices as compared to the energy world prices, it opens broader market for local production and increases the possibility of investments,"  said Tavadyan. In addition Tavadyan stated that the main goal of the EEU was to ensure the growth of economic potential for the member states, which demanded coordinated economic policy.

Gagik Harutyunyan in his speech paid particular attention to such parallel integration processes, as for example BRICS, that will soon gain actual importance. According to him it is time for Armenia to think which will be its role in those processes.  

The participants of the discussion spoke about the role of information and information wars. The head of NGO "Integration and Development" Aram Safaryan underlined, that knowledge on information wars and its methods were especially important for Armenian society, as according to him  frozen conflict and information war is part of our reality and we must be ready to resist it.

Gagik Harutyunyan told the participants about the evolution of information wars and its methods. He also spoke about the drugs, as a method to influence society. "The main goal of information war is to change the behavior of a person, to make him do things that are against his  interests," said Harutyunyan, and added that any method was used to reach this goal.

Samvel Manukyan spoke about the role of ideology in resisting information wars and in stable development of society. "Nowadays Armenian society needs ideology with moral values,"- said Manukyan. He told that the main problem of Armenia nowadays was the gap between society and elites.

In the end the participants of the round table also underlined the important role  experts, analysts and scientists had to play in the development of integration policy and in overcoming challenges.