ARMENIA’S POSITION IN NAGORNO KARABAKH ISSUE IS: MUTUALLY ACCEPTABLE MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN UNREASONABLE CONFRONTATION

Noyan Tapan
Oct 20, 2008

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Artur Baghdasarian, the Secretary of
the RA National Security Council, affirmed that the Armenian-Russian
relations are at the highest level. Answering journalists’ questions,
A. Baghdasarian as evidence of his statement mentioned the coming
official visit to Armenia of RF President Dmitry Medvedev scheduled for
October 20-21, over 170 interstate and intergovernmental agreements
signed between the two countries. According to him, more than 1000
Russian enterprises function in Armenia, more than 70 Russian regions
and autonomous republics cooperate with RA.

Commenting upon "the three main subjects speculated in Armenia’s
political sphere," A. Baghdasarian, in particular, said that
Armenian-Russian strategic cooperation is at the highest level: within
the framework of CSTO, Armenia has a military-political alliance with
country-members of the organization implementing military-political
programs.

Second, in the Nagorno Karabakh issue, according to A. Baghdasarian,
Armenia’s position is exact: "mutually acceptable mutual understanding
is much more important than unreasonable confrontation," and
President Sargsyan and the Armenian authorities have no aim to make
any concession in the Nagorno Karabakh issue.

Third, Armenia, according to A. Baghdasarian, efficiently works
with European structures and has a consistent course of deepening
cooperation with European structures, according to him, its evidence
is also the creation of the interdepartmental commission by the
instruction of the RA President.

And as for the home political situation in Armenia, A. Baghdasarian
considers it stable and normal.