ARMENIAN EDITION OF RONALD ASMUS’S "OPENING NATO’S DOOR" PRESENTED IN YEREVAN

armradio.am
23.06.2008 17:57

The presentation of the Armenian edition of famous U.S. scholar
and former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Ronald Asmus’s
"Opening NATO’s Door" book took place in today.

The presentation was held within the framework of the "NATO Week."

The book is published in Armenian by the Armenian Center for
Transatlantic Initiative (ACTI), which is the operator of the
Information Center on NATO in Armenia.

The means for translating and publishing the book were allocated by
the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian governments.

The book tells about the processes of NATO enlargement – Ronald Asmus
is considered one of the "intellectual architects" of the Alliance’s
enlargement policy, who also participated in its implementation,
occupying the position of the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State in Clinton Administration.

The U.S. Charge D’Affaires in Armenia Joseph Pennington and the
Representative of the Latvian Delegation in NATO Svetlana Araslanova
made speeches at the presentation.

Joseph Pennington stressed that the presentation of Ronald Asmus’s book
"is a very good start for NATO Week in Armenia."

Svetlana Araslanova noted that "the lack of information often
becomes a reason of misunderstanding between countries, and this
is why the participation in this project was very important for the
Baltic States".