ARTUR BAGHDASARIAN: NO ISSUE OF ARMENIA’S MEMBERSHIP TO NATO SET

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 27 2006

SAINT PETERSBURG, APRIL 27, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Armenia’s
striving for extending cooperation with the European Union and
NATO is not aimed against Russia. RA National Assembly Speaker Artur
Baghdasarian declared this on April 27. “I am for intensive development
of our relations with the European Union and consistent integration to
the European structures,” Artur Baghdasarian told a journalist in St
Petersburg. As radio Liberty informs referring to the Interfax news
agency, in connection with Armenia-NATO relations NA Speaker said:
“We have an individual partnership actions plan but this is only
cooperation. No issue of membership to NATO is included in the agenda
of Armenia’s foreign policy”. Artur Baghdasarian is taking part in
the special sitting of RF State Duma in St Petersburg dedicated to
the 100th anniversary of the Russian parliamentarianism.