Pan Armenian News

RUSSIA PERCEIVES ARMENIA AS INDEPENDENT STATE, HAVING AND MAINTAINING ITS
INTERESTS, ANATOLY DRYUKOV STATED

09.04.2005 03:58

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russia perceives Armenia as an independent, sovereign
state, having and maintaining its interests, Russian Ambassador to
Armenia Anatoly Dryukov stated in the course of the final press
conference due to the completion of his diplomatic mission in
Armenia. In his words, there are still certain circles, who use the
situation in their own interest and state that Armenia is “a vassal”
of Russia. It is impossible to impose something on any state today
– except for the military way, which, as experience shows, does not
result in the desirable outcomes, the Russian diplomat emphasized. Any
state has an inalienable right to decide its own fate. “The question
whether Armenia will be interested in a Western-leaning development
is its own right and it is normal. It is erroneous continuing
parting Russia from the rest of the world. We are a European family
and dividing us into separate flats is not correct,» the Russian
Ambassador to Armenia noted. Armenia develops relations with the EU,
the US, the NATO, just like Russia develops cooperation with those
structures. There is nothing unnatural in it, the Ambassador summed up.

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