IN VAZGEN MANUKIAN’S WORDS, RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN’S STATEMENT IS ABSURD
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 19 2006
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. Each of the sides in Armenian-Russian
relations pursues its interests and no one is indebted to another. RA
MP Vazgen Manukian, Chairman of the National Democratic Union, said
at the October 19 press conference. He disagreed to RF State Duma
Deputy Konstantin Zatulin’s statement on clarification of the Armenian
side’s position towards the Russian-Georgian conflict qualifying it as
"absurd."
In V.Manukian’s words, Armenians lived side by side with Georgians
for thousands of years and are obliged to be neighbors. Besides,
two out of four neighbors of Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan, closed
all roads. And the road passing through the territory of Iran can be
endangered if U.S. consistently continues its policy of intolerance
towards this country. And under these conditions Armenia is suggested
aggravating its relations with Georgia, which will result in closure
of this last road.
NDU Chairman is not for Armenia’s membership to NATO, either. In
V.Manukian’s words, NATO cannot provide Armenia’s security, as in
the issue of Cyprus it did not protect a member of this organization,
Greece, from infringements of another member, Turkey. He highlighted
the necessity of preserving balanced relations with Russia, Iran,
Turkey and Europe.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
