BALANCE OF FORCES IN REGION IMPORTANT TO ARMENIA

Arka News Agency, Armenia
March 14 2007

YEREVAN. March 13. /ARKA/. Retaining of balance of forces in the
region is of principled importance to Armenia, the member of the
ARF Dashnaktsutyun high authority, Minister of Science and Education
Levon Lazarian reported on Monday. He said that mechanisms to ensure
regional balance of forces have strategic significance for the future
of our country and people," Lazarian said.

According to him, retaining of regional balance should be viewed in
three planes: civilized, political, and national.

"Values of different civilizations collide in our region, and our
people is one of the few Christian nations not considered alien in
the Muslim world and retaining close ties with the European system
of values considered a fundament of the Christian civilization,"
Lazarian reported.

According to him, this makes Armenia an important factor of retaining
regional balance from the viewpoint of a civilization. Besides this,
global interests face each other in the region from a political
viewpoint.

"A one-sided polarization of forces does not ensure positive
development of our people. We have to do everything to balance the
most different political interests, and it is of high strategic
importance for us," he said.

The ARFD representative also pointed to the important of providing
balance at the national level, because the Armenian people, dispersed
all over the world, "living in different conditions, needs provision
of mechanisms of balance that will lessen natural and objective
disagreements in our life and activity".

According to Lazarian, from these realities proceeds the country’s
complimentary policy, by which Armenia has achieved concrete successes
and obtained confidence and authority in the world.

Lazarian also added that Armenia does not want its bilateral relations
to be conditioned by the relations of third countries.