Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh
Kocharyan declared at the weekend, commenting on Yerevan’s position on
the internal political events in Ukraine that, as it appears now, have
brought the eastern European nation to the brink of war with Russia that continued cooperation and relations in all spheres with Kiev meet the
interests of the Republic of Armenia,
.
“We deem that regardless of the choice of Ukraine our relations will be continued,” said Kocharyan in answer to a question by an RFE/RL Armenian Service correspondent. The Armenian official, in particular, was referring to the preterm general elections that have been appointed in Ukraine after the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych and the formation of an interim government consisting of opposition members and representatives of the Maidan – a pro-EU movement that launched street protests in late November in response to the Ukrainian leadership’s decision not to sign an Association Agreement with Brussels.
The situation in Ukraine, which is home to a sizable Armenian community unofficially numbering some 600,000, including both ethnic Armenian citizens of Ukraine and citizens of Armenia working and staying there, has been rapidly evolving over the weekend as separatist sentiments have been on the rise in more pro-Russian eastern parts of the country and especially in the Crimea, the southernmost peninsula that hosts the Russian Black Sea Navy and has a predominantly ethnic Russian population.
Since last Thursday the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has refused to report to Kiev as control over this strategic region fully passed to its pro-Russian leadership. The Russian military, meanwhile, was deployed in the Crimean region as legislators in Moscow also gave President Vladimir Putin wide powers for an armed invasion of Ukraine at any moment to back the country’s ethnic Russian and Russian-speaking population.
Read more: Armenia says will continue relations with Ukraine ‘regardless of Ukrainians’ choice’ - News | ArmeniaNow.com
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“We deem that regardless of the choice of Ukraine our relations will be continued,” said Kocharyan in answer to a question by an RFE/RL Armenian Service correspondent. The Armenian official, in particular, was referring to the preterm general elections that have been appointed in Ukraine after the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych and the formation of an interim government consisting of opposition members and representatives of the Maidan – a pro-EU movement that launched street protests in late November in response to the Ukrainian leadership’s decision not to sign an Association Agreement with Brussels.
The situation in Ukraine, which is home to a sizable Armenian community unofficially numbering some 600,000, including both ethnic Armenian citizens of Ukraine and citizens of Armenia working and staying there, has been rapidly evolving over the weekend as separatist sentiments have been on the rise in more pro-Russian eastern parts of the country and especially in the Crimea, the southernmost peninsula that hosts the Russian Black Sea Navy and has a predominantly ethnic Russian population.
Since last Thursday the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has refused to report to Kiev as control over this strategic region fully passed to its pro-Russian leadership. The Russian military, meanwhile, was deployed in the Crimean region as legislators in Moscow also gave President Vladimir Putin wide powers for an armed invasion of Ukraine at any moment to back the country’s ethnic Russian and Russian-speaking population.
Read more: Armenia says will continue relations with Ukraine ‘regardless of Ukrainians’ choice’ - News | ArmeniaNow.com
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