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2nd President Kocharyan: Armenia should very seriously consider deeper cooperation with Russia

News.am, Armenia
Feb 6 2021

Full integration offers many benefits in terms of geopolitics. This statement was made by second President Robert Kocharyan, in an interview with Sputnik Armenia.

"We need to talk about serious integration. The world is regionalizing. Global processes are being replaced by some regional integration processes. And in that sense, I believe Armenia should think very seriously about deeper cooperation with Russia; much deeper than now," Kocharyan stated.

Also, the ex-president of Armenia expressed the opinion that a war starts only when the adversary is sure that it will win. Speaking about the recent war in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Kocharyan stressed that Azerbaijan had obviously planned for it for quite a long time—both the information attack and the start of hostilities—, but such a development of events could have been avoided. "If I were in power [at the time], I am just sure that there would have been no war. And if it were, there would have been total mobilization and concentration of resources to such an extent that we would undoubtedly have stopped the enemy," Robert Kocharyan stated.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS