Interfax
Sept 22 2004

Armenia doesn’t intend to join NATO but will deepen relations

Yerevan. (Interfax) – Armenia intends to deepen relations with NATO
but has no plans of joining the alliance, Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanian told a Wednesday news conference.

“Our stance amounts to the maximum expansion and deepening of
relations with the alliance. I don’t know what NATO thinks of it but
membership in the alliance is not on our agenda today,” he said.

As for Armenia’s plans for sending a group of 50 servicemen to Iraq,
Oskanian said that it would be a humanitarian mission consisting of
doctors, drivers and sappers.

He emphasized that from the very start Armenia was opposed to
military presence in Iraq.