OSKANIAN: ARMENIA HAS THREE GOALS IN ITS RELATIONS WITH NATO

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Oct 6 2005

YEREVAN, October 6. /ARKA/. Armenia has three goals in its relations
with NATO, RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said at the “Rose
Route” seminar organized by the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO in
Yerevan. He said the first goal is institutionalization of relations
with NATO regarding security issues, struggle against trafficking,
terrorism and arms control. The second is reforms in Forced Arms of
the RA, which suppose civil control over forced arms. And the third
aspect is Armenia’s participation in NATO’s peacemaking operations.

He said that Armenia already participates in some of NATO’s peacemaking
operations.

Oskanyan pointed out that Armenia is interested in activation of its
relations with NATO in the context of regional security issues as
it needs multilevel system of security. He said that “the public of
Armenia has very close relations with Russia, the Russian military
bases are displaced in Armenia, Armenia is the member of CSTO, but
at the same time Armenia closely cooperates with NATO, and this is
the idea of complementarism”. A.A. -0–

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress