RA DM: ARMENIA NEEDN NOT CHANGE ITS STRATEGY
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Oct 11 2005
YEREVAN, October 11. /ARKA/. Armenia needn’t change its strategy, the
RA Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan told reporters when commenting
on the recent statement of the Deputy of the RF State Duma Alexander
Fomenko, who said that adoption of the NATO standards by Armenia will
complicate the strategic partnership of the latter with Russia.
According to the Minister, the Deputy doesn’t understand correctly the
international and NATO standards. According to Sargsyan, the standards
of NATO imply transition to NATO armament, ideology and everything
connected with it, while international standards imply availability
of battle-worthy subdivisions in line with those standards. “These are
different conceptions”, he said. Particularly, drawing an analogy with
sport, Sargsyan noted that Russian and American sportsmen use various
standards however achieve the same goal when holding a record in one-
hundred- meter race.
To remind, on Saturday Fomenko stated in Yerevan that adoption of the
NATO standards by Armenia will complicate its strategic partnership
with Russia. According to him, partners should have the same military
standards. If they are different, it will complicate the strategic
partnership between two countries, since Russia is not going to adopt
those standards.