UKRAINE SAYS MILITARY COOPERATION WITH ARMENIA NOT TO HARM TIES WITH AZERBAIJAN

UNIAN news agency, Kiev
31 May 06

Baku, 31 May: Ukrainian Defence Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko has said
that cooperation between Ukraine and Armenia will not do any harm to
relations with Azerbaijan. Hrytsenko was speaking at a news conference
in Baku after a session of the CIS Council of Defence Ministers.

“Our cooperation with Armenia does not involve any actions that could
harm other countries which are our partners,” Hrytsenko said.

Hrytsenko also said that Ukraine develops releations of mutually
beneficial partnership with many countries. He also stressed the
necessity to settle the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict [between Azerbaijan
and Armenia].

Azeri press has reported that Ukraine and Armenia signed a protocol
on military and technical cooperation after Ukrainian Chief of the
General Staff Serhiy Kyrychenko visited Armenia [on 24 May].

Armed conflicts have been going on for years at the border betwen
Armenia and Azerbaijan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress