CAUCASUS LIKE KARABAKH

Lragir.am, Armenia
Oct 25 2006

For Russia the Caucasus is the same as Karabakh for Armenia, stated
Member of Parliament Hmayak Hovanisyan October 25 at the Hayeli Club,
speaking about the Russian-Georgian relation. According to him, Russia
uses the wrong methods to react to the hostility that began from the
"spy games" by Georgia, but this reaction is appropriate and logical
because Georgia offended Russia by striking its strategic interests.

Hmayak Hovanisyan says the point is that they are trying to oust Russia
from the region through Georgia but they have forgotten that all the
Russian commanders were "baptized" in the Caucasus, the Caucasus was
the theater of all the great historical battles of Russia. "Russia
needed an idea of mobilization, and this idea has emerged," Hmayak
Hovanisyan says.

He thinks that Georgia offended Armenia as well by announcing that
the actions of the spies were coordinated in Yerevan. Therefore,
Hmayak Hovanisyan is surprised that Armenia did not give an adequate
response despite the statement, though an impertinent one, by such
a friendly member of parliament as Zatulin, says Hmayak Hovanisyan.

According to him, the goal of integration with European and Western
organizations is justified, whereas the tactics chosen by Georgia is
wrong. Hovanisyan advises not to choose this tactics, be realistic
and remember that 80 percent of transfers exceeding the budget of
Armenia twice are made by the Armenians working in Russia.