AZG Armenian Daily #230, 01/12/2006

NATO-region

NATO: PRINCIPLE OF TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY TO BE APPLIED
IN FROZEN CONFLICTS

Daniel Fried, US Assistant Secretary for Europe and
Eurasia, stated that the NATO document summarizing the
organization’s Riga summit reconfirm its support to
"the South Caucasus and Moldova’s territorial
integrity". In Fried’s words, NATO did it for the
first time thus flashing a signal to those countries.
NATO communiqué does not give freedom of activity to
the post-Soviet countries, which deal with frozen
conflict especially in the context of peaceful
settlement for the South Caucasus and Moldova. "The
support to territorial integrity is not a call for
arming and for beginning a war," Fried explained.

The clauses of the summarizing document of the NATO
summit concerning Georgia are not less interesting.
NATO member-states welcomed the reforms carried out in
Georgia. Daniel Fried stated that the US
Administration "wants to help" the Georgian
authorities to fulfill their obligations on their path
to NATO membership.

By Aghavni Harutyunian

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress