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    LESS POSSIBILITY FOR GEORGIA OR AZERBAIJAN TO JOIN NATO, ANALYST

    Tert.am
    27.07.10

    There is less possibility that Azerbaijan and Georgia will join NATO
    anytime soon, US analyst on Russia and South Caucasus and Director
    of Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of
    Michigan Ronald Grigor Suny told Azerbaijani news agency APA.

    "Since the Russian-Georgian war there is much less possibility of
    Georgia or Azerbaijan joining NATO. With Russia prepared to move
    across the Caucasus, and the South Caucasian states being relatively
    weaker than Russia, it is unlikely that NATO would have a meaningful
    presence in the region. If NATO was imaginative, it would expand in
    one particular way - make Russia a member! This way an alliance that
    was formed against the Soviet Union would turn into a collective
    security pact to deal with conflicts among its members," said he.

    Asked what Russia and US could do in order to cooperate in the
    region of South Caucasus, Mr Suny said: "Both Russia and the US want
    to cooperate. South Caucasia is an area of considerable conflicting
    interests between these two powers. The United States has pulled back
    a bit from its fairly expansionist policy of global hegemony during the
    Bush administration, so the door has opened a bit for better relations
    with Russia. Together the US and Russia could show their good will and
    the advantages of cooperation by solving one of the regional conflicts,
    perhaps the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Karabakh. It is time
    for some creative thinking... and compromise from all sides."




    From: A. Papazian
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