SERZH SARGSYAN: WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PREVENT DEEPENING OF INTOLERANCE WITH JOINT FORCES
Noyan Tapan
May 15, 2009
YEREVAN, MAY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. Today the South Caucasian region
is considered important as a plane of democratic development,
international security and cooperation, as well as an important way
of export and transition of energy supplies, which under current
circumstances has a military-political and economic significance. RA
President Serzh Sargsyan said in his address to the participants of
the two-day international conference Security and Cooperation in the
Caucasus and Around It being held on May 15-16 in Yerevan. "This is a
look from outside, for us, the Caucasus is the geographic environment
where we live, where in spite of current contradictions and variety
of opinions the regional states face the common dictate of building
more peaceful and secure region," the address read.
According to S. Sargsyan, the South Caucasus has problems seeming
insuperable, fragile stability, and reestablishment of peace and
security requires joint work.
"We are convinced that the future way of the Caucasus and neighbor
states is combination of current military-political, economic,
and cultural interests, cooperation of the East and the West, the
North and the South, which will make our region a zone of peace
and cooperation. For the Republic of Armenia, democracy, peace,
regional security and cooperation are not purely slogans, they are
the values our statehood is based on, our citizens’ vision of living
in a peaceful and secure world, our country’s foreign policy," the RA
President said in his speech. In his words, the way of conflict and
intolerance will not lead to anything and are fraught with new dangers
and undesirable losses. S. Sargsyan considers that we should be able
together, with joint forces to prevent deepening of intolerance, exert
maximum efforts in the direction of peaceful settlement of conflicts
and ensure an atmosphere of mutual understanding and cooperation.
S. Sargsyan considered symbolic and praiseworthy that 50 delegates
from more than 30 countries take part in the conference, which is
evidence that many countries are interested in providing security
and stability in the region.
He expressed confidence that the international conference Security and
Cooperation in the Caucasus and Around It will become a plane of free,
fearless and new viewpoints and analyses related to regional security
and cooperation.