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    SERGE SARGSIAN: WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF WAR, MEANWHILE WE DO NOT WISH IT

    Noyan Tapan
    April 16, 2008

    YEREVAN, APRIL 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Introducing on April 16 newly appointed
    Minister Edward Nalbandian to the leading personnel of the RA Foreign
    Ministry, RA President Serge Sargsian expressed confidence that not
    only diplomats, but also a considerable part of society know the
    newly appointed Minister, appreciate his activity and professional
    skills. S. Sargsian expressed confidence that E. Nalbandian will be
    able to reveal his abilities to the maximum extent and be useful to
    the people on the new post.

    He once more thanked Vardan Oskanian, who headed the Armenian
    Foreign Ministry for ten years and presented Armenia properly and
    with a dignity to the world in these years: from the UN tribune, at
    international structures, in bilateral relations. S. Sargsian expressed
    confidence that V. Oskanian's experience and abilities will continue
    being useful in the issue of solving the problems faced by the country.

    As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA President's Press Office,
    taking the opportunity, S. Sargsian also touched upon some foreign
    political issues.

    He said that in the coming years the RA foreign policy,
    keeping its complementary content, should become more active,
    more initiating. According to him, Armenia should be able to be
    more actively involved in international life, continue deepening
    its relations with both friendly countries and with international
    organizations. In this respect the President attached much importance
    to creation of favorable conditions for peaceful and fair solution
    of the Nagorno Karabakh problem.

    Mentioning that Baku has some misunderstanding connected with
    Azerbaijan's petrodollars, raw materials resources, S. Sargsian said:
    "We should account to ourselves, as well as explain to others that
    it is not through the power of money that a state can be built, it is
    not through the power of money that armed forces can be built. All of
    you know that Armenia takes the 28th and Azerbaijan the 107th place
    on the rating list of economic freedoms. This already is evidence
    of something. According to specialists' evaluations, Azerbaijan has
    armed subdivisions and Armenia armed forces. And if Azeris think that
    purely with dollars they will be able to make the army efficient in
    a short time and to solve the Nagorno Karabakh problem by that army,
    they are sadly mistaken. The fact of existence of the Nagorno Karabakh
    Republic is already irreversible," he emphasized.

    According to S. Sargsian, Armenia has always assisted fulfilment of
    the Nagorno Karabakh people's self-determination right, the Republic
    of Armenia is the guarantor of Nagorno Karabakh population's security
    and will continue that policy. "We wish the Nagorno Karabakh problem
    to be solved peacefully.

    We are not afraid of a war, meanwhile we do not wish it," he stressed.

    Considering deepening of economic contacts with neighboring countries
    as one of the most serious problems of foreign policy, S. Sargsian
    said that though relations with many countries are at a high level,
    the economic contacts are weak. "There is a great potential in that
    issue and it should be used to the maximum extent," he said.

    S. Sargsian attached a special importance to the work with the
    Diaspora, more complete use of Diaspora's potential. He also said that
    the issue of international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian
    Genocide will remain on the agenda of Armenia's foreign policy.
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