KOCHARIAN: ARMENIA INTERESTED IN PRESENCE OF RUSSIAN BASE
Pan Armenian News
27.09.2005 04:34
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The presence of the 102-nd Russian military base in
Armenia is country’s security component, Armenian President Robert
Kocharian stated at a joint news conference with Finnish President
Tarja Halonen. The Armenian leader flatly denied the opinion that
Russian military presence is imposed upon Armenia. “No one obliges
anyone, we are interested in the presence of the Russian military
base ourselves, as we have a complicated region and relations between
regional states are complex,” R. Kocharian remarked. He also added
that the issue of expansion of the Russian military presence in
Armenia is not discussed at the moment.