ARF IS DISCONTENT WITH RUSSIA
Lragir.am
25/11/09
On November 25, the ARF member, the NA head of the commission on
security and defence issues Hrayr Karapetyan expressed his concern
in connection with the Russian military-political cooperation with
Turkey and Azerbaijan. He noted that the fact that Russia which is a
CSTO member like Armenia carries out such partnership with Azerbaijan
which is not a member of that organization in case the president of
this country makes aggressive statements in address of Armenia. "If
Russia considers Saakashvili a psychologically non-equilibrated person
why doesn’t it think the same about Ilham Aliyev who regularly makes
aggressive statements?" says Hrayr Karapetyan. According to him,
the fact hat Russia cooperates with Azerbaijan in case the latter
may show aggression against Armenia at any instant is worrying.
Karapetyan wonders which is the difference of being a member of the
CSTO if Russia cooperates with Azerbaijan which is not a member. Hrayr
Karapetyan is dissatisfied with Russia’s cooperation with Turkey as
well. According to him, Russia cooperates with a country which is a
security threat to Armenia.
Nevertheless, Hrayr Karapetyan noted Armenia’s security interests
demand to deepen our relations with the CSTO but this structure must be
real and not artificial. Karapetyan of course, assesses positively our
cooperation with NATO saying it is wrong to contradict CSTO and NATO.
By the way, earlier the member of the ARF Bureau Vahan Hovhannisyan
expressed his dissatisfaction with Russia too, in particular with
Russia’s role in the process of the Armenian and Turkish normalization
and the Karabakh settlement. He said its role is dangerous for Armenia.