Loss of Armenia will exclude Russia from South Caucasus

PanARMENIAN.Net

Loss of Armenia will exclude Russia from South Caucasus
07.02.2008 15:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russia lacks well-defined policy as
regards the South Caucasus, deputy director of the
center of Caucasian studies at the Moscow State
Institute of International Relations, professor
Vladimir Zakharov said at Caucasus and Middle East:
Possible Partners in Formation of Regional Security
System international conference in Yerevan. South
Caucasus becomes one of NATO’s priorities forming a
new geopolitical configuration where Russia has no
place, he said.

`Georgia and Azerbaijan have actually separated from
Russia. Losing Armenia, Russia will lose the way to
South Caucasus,’ he said adding that any armed
conflict in Georgia will initiate U.S. incursion in
the region and, possibly, further attack on Iran.