ARMENIA AND RUSSIA WELCOME ANY STEP TARGETED AT ENSURING SECURITY AND STABILITY IN THE CAUCASUS
armradio.am
03.10.2008 15:29
Armenia and Russia welcome any step targeted at ensuring security and
stability in the Caucasus region, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia
and Georgia Edward Nalbandian and Sergey Lavrov stated during a joint
press conference. According to eth Foreign Minister of Armenia,
the formation of an atmosphere of security, stability, trust and
cooperation lays in the basis of creation of the Caucasus Platform,
and no country can oppose that idea. However, issues of its functions,
mechanisms, the format of participants still need to be discussed.
According to Sergey Lavrov, Russia also backs the steps targeted
at maintaining a stable, calm and comfortable situation for the
cooperation in the economic, humanitarian and security spheres.
Turning to his the trilateral meeting between himself and his
Azerbaijani and Turkish counterparts, Edward Nalbandian noted that it
was positive just because it took place, but it was hard to expect
concrete results from the first meeting. During the meeting they
discussed the issue of the Caucasus Platform and expressed willingness
to continue the meetings in this and other formats.