RA DEFENCE MINISTRY MAKES DECISION NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN CIS DEFENCE MINISTERS’ SITTING TO TAKE PLACE IN BAKU

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 30 2006

YEREVAN, MAY 30, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Taking into account
that the CIS Defence Ministers’ Council Secretariate was not able to
get guarantees for security of the RA Defence Ministries’ delegation
members from the Azerbaijani authorities, a decision was made not
to participate in the CIS Defence Ministers’ sitting to take place
in Baku in May 31. The CIS Defence Ministers’ Council Sectretariate
informed about it in written form. “This fact again proves that
Azerbaijan is not able to implement its obligations: to guarantee
security of participants of an international event being organized on
its own territory. The CIS Council of Defence Ministers is obliged
in its turn to create equal conditions for all CIS member states’
participation in the sitting.

We wait for the CIS Defence Ministers’ Council’s official attitude
towards the happened,” is said in the RA Defence Ministry’s statement
that was submitted to Noyan Tapan by Colonel Seyran Shahsuvarian,
the RA Defence Minister’s Press Secretary.