Full integration offers many benefits in terms of geopolitics. This statement was made by second President Robert Kocharyan, in an interview with Sputnik Armenia.
"We need to talk about serious integration. The world is regionalizing. Global processes are being replaced by some regional integration processes. And in that sense, I believe Armenia should think very seriously about deeper cooperation with Russia; much deeper than now," Kocharyan stated.
Also, the ex-president of Armenia expressed the opinion that a war starts only when the adversary is sure that it will win. Speaking about the recent war in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Kocharyan stressed that Azerbaijan had obviously planned for it for quite a long time—both the information attack and the start of hostilities—, but such a development of events could have been avoided. "If I were in power [at the time], I am just sure that there would have been no war. And if it were, there would have been total mobilization and concentration of resources to such an extent that we would undoubtedly have stopped the enemy," Robert Kocharyan stated.
