ARMENIAN SPEAKER SAYS JOINING NATO NOT ON AGENDA

Interfax-AVN military news agency website, Moscow
27 April 06

St Petersburg, 27 April: Armenia’s attempts to broaden relations
with the EU and NATO are not directed against Russia, Chairman of
the Armenian National Assembly Artur Bagdasaryan has said.

“I support intensive development of relations with the EU and targeted
integration into various European structures including the Council
of Europe,” Bagadasaryan told journalists in St Petersburg.

At the same time, he emphasized, “this does not mean that our
cooperation with the EU should worsen relations between Russia,
our most reliable partner, and the EU”.

On relations between Armenia and NATO, Bagdasaryan said: “We have
an individual partnership plan, but we are only talking about
cooperation. Armenia’s joining NATO is not on the foreign policy
agenda.”