“There are separate activity lines in South Caucasus region: it is the already mentioned EU program, that is the European Neighborhood Policy. Here I have to underline the fact of separate communication vectors between the EU and regional states. The European Union also has been lured by the predilections of individual initiatives of the regional states,” told Manvel Sargsyan, the head of ‘Kavkaz’ analytical center during the interview to the PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, there is no smell of regional integration in South Caucasus, instead tendencies of separate integration lines are observed between EU programs and the regional countries. “In the current period of global changes the civilized world goes to any experiments for the sake to preserve universal stability and encourage the growth of political quality of subjects in the whole world,” he stressed.
On his opinion, the old principles of stability providing system work worse and worse and it is necessary to find methods to transform global order on the bases of less destructive processes not to allow to appear different uncontrollable territories. “We notice, that these issues occupy more and more place in the policies of Western countries. And the South Caucasus, in this regard, is not the biggest problem. We should not also forget about the chain of disruptiveness – Iraq, Iran and Lebanon. The Caucasian problems are less local. Still there is one more moment – the relationship of Caucasian states with Russia. For example, Russia has already put a question in front of Armenia – make your choice. And what it means is difficult to understand not only for the people of our region but also for Russia herself. I do not think that anybody fully understands what is right, what is not. The work is going on as a habit, and the characters of reciprocal demands do not display well-shaped logic: this is the specific character of period of changes. From time to time we notice that the presidents of regional countries just do not understand how to behave, what others want from them. There is no iron logic – there are only amorphous approaches and bad knowledge of own interests,” Sargsyan underlined.
