Businessman asks how local entrepreneurs will communicate with European partners without speaking foreign languages?

Speaking at a parliamentary hearing convened by several extra-parliamentary parties and non-governmental organisations to discuss the possibility of holding a referendum to find out whether Armenian citizens want the government to apply for EU membership, Armen Martirosyan, vice president of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Armenia, raised the issue of communication between domestic and European business people.br /

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YEREVAN, 21 June. /ARKA/. Speaking at a parliamentary hearing convened by several extra-parliamentary parties and non-governmental organisations to discuss the possibility of holding a referendum to find out whether Armenian citizens want the government to apply for EU membership, Armen Martirosyan, vice president of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Armenia, raised the issue of communication between domestic and European business people.

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How will our business representatives communicate with European businessmen? Have we taught them foreign languages? Many Europeans don't speak any other language but their native tongue. Do we teach Spanish in our schools today? How are we going to communicate with these people? - he said during the hearing.

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Martirosyan added that in order to work together, the parties must understand each other.

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What do we know about the Slovaks? What do we know about the people of Slovenia? And how are we going to communicate, for example, with Danes? I am not talking about the culture of these European countries. Is the quality of our goods and services good enough for the citizens of the EU nations?, Martirosyan wondered.-0-.

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