BAKU ACCUSES ARMENIA AND RUSSIA OF DESTABILIZATION IN SOUTH CAUCASUS
Pan Armenian News
20.05.2005 07:54
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Armenia is the source of destabilization in the
South Caucasus”, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov stated
at Security and Stability in the South Caucasus NATO international
conference that opened Friday in Baku. “While Azerbaijan is making a
great contribution to the development of the region exporting energy
sources and Georgia is providing transit possibilities, Armenia is
engaged in exporting instability”, Azimov stated. The Deputy Minister
noted that with its aggressive policy towards the neighbor states
Armenia has isolated itself from the global regional processes and
the attitude of the Euroatlantic organizations towards Armenia should
differ from the policy towards Azerbaijan and Georgia. He also noted
that Russia’s policy in the South Caucasus “does not always have a
positive influence upon the regional situation”. “I think that the
consolidation of the NATO-Russia relations can lead to geopolitical
changes in the region”, the diplomat said. To note, experts from the
US, Romania, Georgia, Russia and other states are taking part in the
NATO conference.