ARMENIAN OFFICIAL GOES ON BOOSTING TIES WITH NATO
ArmenPress
Feb 10 2005
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 10, ARMENPRESS: A senior member of the Armenian
parliament called today for intensifying ties with NATO to foil
Azerbaijan’s intentions to take the Nagorno Karabagh case to
NATO Parliamentary Assembly session. Speaking to journalists, Mher
Shahgeldian, the chairman of the parliament committee on defense and
national security issues, recalled, however, statements by senior
NATO officials that the alliance was not going to intervene in the
Armenian-Azeri conflict.
He said Armenia has to work harder to build up cooperation with NATO,
especially after a threat by Ziyafat Askerov, the head of Azerbaijani
delegation to NATO Parliamentary Assembly that Baku is going to raise
the Karabagh issue there.
According to Shahgeldian , NATO is becoming one of the components of
the regional security. “Armenia’s position in NATO PA differs from
that of Georgia and Azerbaijan, which have openly said they want to
joint it, while Armenia is a member of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization,” he said.