ARMENIA CANNOT STAY INDIFFERENT TO EUROPE’S PROBLEMS: ARMENIA’S DM
ARMINFO News Agency
October 11, 2005
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 11. ARMINFO. As a country seeking to integrate into
Europe Armenia cannot stay indifferent to its problems just like
Europe cannot be indifferent to ours, Armenia’s Defence Minister Serzh
Sargsyan said while awarding the first group of Armenia peacekeepers
in Iraq today.
Sargsyan thanked the peacekeepers for successfully fulfilling their
hard mission. “By your effective actions you have raised the prestige
of our Fatherland,” he said.
Concerning the Karabakh conflict Sargsyan said that during the Karabakh
war the Armenian army asserted Karabakh’s right to be independent
and secure and now by its high fighting capacity it should ensure the
peaceful resolution of the conflict. Now the situation is much like
early 90 – inspired by oil profits Azerbaijan is beginning to sing
the old song about getting Karabakh back but in early 90 we already
proved that this is a myth, Sargsyan said noting that his words are
well-grounded – “our ground is our army, its effective troops, you
and your service on our borders and within international missions.”