Pan Armenian
NATO Exerts Big Effort to Prevent Escalation of Karabakh Conflict
07.10.2005 11:02
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia has fixed considerable progress in cooperation
with NATO, Romualdas Razuks, NATO Officer-Coordinator for South Caucasus
stated during the `Security in the South Caucasus’ Rose-Roth NATO PA seminar
that started October 6 in Yerevan. He reminded that the South Caucasus has
been announced a priority zone for NATO and the implementation of the
Individual Partnership Action Plan in the states of the region is the
evidence of it. In his words in autumn 2005 the plans will be discussed and
the elaboration process will be completed by the end of the current year.
The NATO Officer noted that the level of cooperation mostly depends on the
internal processes in the states of the region. He stressed that the IPAP
provides for conformity of the partner Armed Forces with the NATO standards.
In this view, representative of the Russian delegation Victor Ozerov
expressed opinion that urging the partners to bring the military and
technical basis to the NATO standards, the `Alliance as if artificially
incites them to retrofitting and purchase of armament from the NATO
member-states.’ When touching upon the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement
Mr. Razuks noted that however the organization exerts every effort to
prevent the escalation of the conflict and resumption of hostilities. He
also informed that NATO is going to open a scientific and technical center
in Armenia, reported IA Regnum.