ARMENIA PM AGAINST NATO MILITARY BASE IN TRANSCAUCASIA

ITAR-TASS, Russia
April 11 2007

YEREVAN, April 11 (Itar-Tass) – Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisyan
on Wednesday came out against the deployment of a NATO military base
in Transcaucasia.

"New demarcation lines will add nothing to security of our region,"
the prime minister noted at a joint news conference with Russia’s
First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov.

"If Russia reduces its military presence in the region, it does not
mean that others must step it up," Sarkisyan emphasized.