Pan Armenian News
NATO DID NOT DECIDE ON DEPLOYING FORCES IN SOUTH CAUCASUS
25.04.2005 03:57
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ NATO did not decide on deploying its forces on the
territory of either of the South Caucasian states, Special Representative
for the Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons stated in Tbilisi. `NATO is
not going to commit troops in South Caucasus for the defense of a gas
pipeline or any other economic objects. However I do not rule out that the
issue may be discussed in future’, he stated in response to the reports of
some media on the alleged decision by NATO to deploy forces in Azerbaijan
for the defense of the Azeri sector of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.