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"BAKU WILL RISE, BUT YEREVAN WILL GO DOWN" - ARMENIAN POLITICIAN ON POSSIBLE RUSSIAN-US EXPLOITATION OF GABALA RADAR STATION
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15:26 07/06/2007
If an agreement is reached on joint Russian-American exploitation of
the Gabala radar station, Azerbaijan will climb another stage in the
eyes of the United States, and Armenia will go down, deputy chair
of the Armenian National Movement Party Aram Manukyan announced at
a news conference in Yerevan.
As a REGNUM correspondent informs, according to Manukyan, if the United
States does not give up the idea of deploying its missile defense
in Czechia and Poland, it will affect Russia negatively. "Taking
into consideration that Moscow is Armenia's major strategic partner,
it will have the same effect for Armenia," he said.
As Manukyan noted, as for other neighbors, Georgia and Turkey, their
alliance with Baku in projects isolating Armenia today is the main
foreign policy challenge in Yerevan.
Moreover, according to Manukyan, if Turkey and Azerbaijan's actions
against Armenia are understandable, it is evident in Georgia that
Armenia is not treated as a friendly nation.
This, according to him, is stipulated by a recent statement by Robert
Kocharyan that Armenia's joining NATO will be a step backwards for
its sovereignty. The international community believes that negative
attitude of one of South Caucasian countries towards joining European
institutions hampers tehprocess of uniting the whole region with
Europe.
Manukyan also believes that such pro-Russian direction of Armenia's
foreign policy is not justified. Russia "caused damage" to Armenia,
and withdrawal of Russian military bases for the territory of
Samtskhe-Javakheti, mostly populated by Armenians and the base was
practically the only working place for them. At the same time, he
noted that Moscow even paid to Tbilisi for deploying its forces in
the Georgian territory. "Why is Russia not paying to Armenia for its
military base in Gyumri?" asked Aram Manukyan.
Permanent news address: www.regnum.ru/english/853457.html
15:26 07/06/2007
If an agreement is reached on joint Russian-American exploitation of
the Gabala radar station, Azerbaijan will climb another stage in the
eyes of the United States, and Armenia will go down, deputy chair
of the Armenian National Movement Party Aram Manukyan announced at
a news conference in Yerevan.
As a REGNUM correspondent informs, according to Manukyan, if the United
States does not give up the idea of deploying its missile defense
in Czechia and Poland, it will affect Russia negatively. "Taking
into consideration that Moscow is Armenia's major strategic partner,
it will have the same effect for Armenia," he said.
As Manukyan noted, as for other neighbors, Georgia and Turkey, their
alliance with Baku in projects isolating Armenia today is the main
foreign policy challenge in Yerevan.
Moreover, according to Manukyan, if Turkey and Azerbaijan's actions
against Armenia are understandable, it is evident in Georgia that
Armenia is not treated as a friendly nation.
This, according to him, is stipulated by a recent statement by Robert
Kocharyan that Armenia's joining NATO will be a step backwards for
its sovereignty. The international community believes that negative
attitude of one of South Caucasian countries towards joining European
institutions hampers tehprocess of uniting the whole region with
Europe.
Manukyan also believes that such pro-Russian direction of Armenia's
foreign policy is not justified. Russia "caused damage" to Armenia,
and withdrawal of Russian military bases for the territory of
Samtskhe-Javakheti, mostly populated by Armenians and the base was
practically the only working place for them. At the same time, he
noted that Moscow even paid to Tbilisi for deploying its forces in
the Georgian territory. "Why is Russia not paying to Armenia for its
military base in Gyumri?" asked Aram Manukyan.