GEORGIA’S CONSENT TO TRANSPORT MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO ARMENIA IS THOUGHTLESS STEP: POLITICAL SCIENTIST
TREND News Agency
Nov 13 2008
Azerbaijan
Georgia, Tbilisi, 13 November / Trend News, corr. N.Kirtskhalia /The
permission by Georgia to transport military equipment to Armenia from
Russia via its territory may complicate the situation in Tbilisi,
Ramaz Klimiashvili, Georgian political scientist, told Trend News.
Recently, Armenian Defence Minister Seiran Oganyan voiced a will at
the meeting with Georgian’s Defence Minister David Kezerashvili that
the transit of military equipment to Armenia via the territory of
Georgia like it happens with economic cargoes.
"This will be the next thoughtless step that Tbilisi will take and may
result in provocation," Klimiashvili said. The decision will cause a
discontent in Azerbaijan, which is considered the ‘strategic partner
of Georgia and at the same time provides the country with gas’.
The political scientists stated that the one way where Armenia may
receive military equipment is Russia with whom Georgia has strained
relations. "It is hard to imagine how Tbilisi will permit to transport
military equipment from the country which occupied its territories,"
Klimiashvilis said.
A number of press in Georgia released information about the agreement
that was achieved with respect to transport equipment. However,
the Georgian Defence Ministry denies the information.