RUSSIA DOES NOT FULFILL ITS OBLIGATIONS AS STRATEGIC PARTNER OF
Armenia: ARMENIAN MP

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 30. ARMINFO. Armenian President Robert Kocharyan
joining the statement of CIS signatories giving a negative assessment
of the OSCE’s activity and his congratulation to Victor Yanukovich on
his election to the post of Ukrainian President incites European
structures against Armenia, which in its turn, has a negative impact
on their position in discussion of Karabakh problem at these
structures. Head of the National Democratic Party, the member of the
Armenian delegation to PACE, Shavarsh Kocharyan made this statement at
a press-conference, Tuesday.

He said that both in the first and in the second case, Armenia’s
position is undoubtedly within the interests of Russia. Meanwhile,
Kocharyan said, Russia ignores the interests of the country in many
important issues for Armenia, often forgetting about the partner
relations between the two states. To prove the aforementioned, he said
that when discussing the Karabakh problem at PACE Political Committee,
the Russian delegation left the session hall. Besides, Shavarsh
Kocharyan said that Russia did not take into account the interests of
Armenia when signing a contract on sale of arms to
Azerbaijan. Besides, it sales arms to Azerbaijan for the same price as
to CSTO member-states. Russia leaves vulnerable Armenia’s interests
when discussing the prospects of construction of Russia-Georgia-Turkey
and Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran railways as in case of implementation of
these projects, opening of Kars-Gyumri-Akhalkalaki railway will be
endangered, Kocharyan said.

He said that in such situation, Armenia must not hope for the
assistance of its strategic partner, but to try to enlist support of
European structures through development of democracy and increase of
its international image. Meanwhile, he said that development of
democratic principles is practically ruled out under the current
authorities in Armenia.