KOCHARIAN: “WE CONSIDER PRESENCE OF RUSSIAN FULCRUM IN ARMENIA AS A COMPONENT OF OUR SAFETY”

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 27 2005

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. “We have no problem of widening
the Russian military fulcrum in Armenia, but the one, what there is,
is settled in legal way, envisaged by the conception of the safety
of Armenia,” RA President Robert Kocharian stated at the September
27 press-conference.

The President interpreted that the Russian military fulcrum in Armenia
is placed based on mutual agreement. Armenia was also interested in
having that military fulcrum, as, according to Robert Kocharian, the
impression created by some publications of the press that placing
of the fulcrum is imposed is wrong. “We are in rather difficult
region where relations among countries are still in the process of
settlement, and we consider the presence of that fulcrum in Armenia
as one of components of safety,” the RA President emphasized.