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    ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BACKS COOPERATION WITH BOTH RUSSIA, NATO

    Mediamax
    Jan 30 2008
    Armenia

    Yerevan, 30 January: An Armenian presidential candidate, who is
    also a deputy speaker of the parliament and member ofthe [Armenian
    Revolutionary Federation] Dashnaktsutyun party bureau, Vahan
    Hovhannisyan, said in Yerevan today that heconsiders as righteous
    Yerevan's choice of the "multi-layer" model of security provision.

    Vahan Hovhannisyan said this today at his meeting with journalists
    in the Information Center on NATO in Yerevan.

    The Information Center on NATO sent out invitations to all the nine
    presidential candidates with a proposal topublicly present their
    approaches to the issue of security provision in Armenia.

    Vahan Hovhannisyan noted that Armenia has the opportunity to expand
    cooperation with Russia within the framework ofthe Collective Security
    Treaty Organization (CSTO), as well as with NATO. The presidential
    candidate noted that Armenia keeps to a constructive stance, trying
    not to gamble on contradictions but find common interests.

    Vahan Hovhannisyan noted that the absence of diplomatic relations
    between Armenia and Turkey undoubtedly influencesthe public perception
    of NATO in Armenia. The presidential candidate also noted that
    "in Soviet times we perceived NATO as a defender of the free world,
    however, after the collapse of the USSR, when our eyes opened, we
    realized that byno means all the member states of the alliance are
    as free and democratic as we considered them to be".
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