OPPOSING RUSSIA TO EU UNACCEPTABLE TO ARMENIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
27.04.2006 21:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia’s urge to expand relations with the EU and
NATO is not aimed against Russia, Armenian Speaker Artur Baghdassaryan
said. “I am for us developing our relations with the EU intensively
and purposefully integrate in various European structures, including
the Council of Europe,” Baghdassaryan told journalists in Saint
Petersburg. At the same time, he emphasized, “this does not meeting
Armenia’s cooperation with the EU should worsen relations with Russia.”
“Opposing Russia, who is our best reliable partner, to the EU
is unacceptable to us,” he remarked. Touching upon NATO-Armenia
relations, he said, “we have the Individual Partnership Action Plan
(IPAP), however the matter concerns not only cooperation. The issue of
possibility of Armenia’s accession to the NATO is not on the foreign
policy agenda,” Artur Baghdassaryan said, reports Interfax.