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    ARMENIA DOES NOT PLAN TO JOIN NATO - PRESIDENT

    Interfax News Agency
    June 27 2008
    Russia

    Armenia does not plan to join NATO, Armenian President Serzh
    Sargsyan said."We have always said and are saying now that Armenia's
    foreign political agenda does not envision accession to NATO,"
    Sargsyan said in an interview published in Kommersant on Friday.

    "Armenia finds it beneficial to be a member of the CSTO [the Collective
    Security Treaty Organization]," Sargsyan said. "We have built our
    armed forces on the basis of the Soviet doctrine, and they are armed
    with Soviet military hardware. Almost all the weapons we have today
    are either Soviet or Russian," Sargsyan said. "All this needs to be
    maintained, modernized, and replenished. The CSTO provides for such
    a chance. We have privileged conditions for military-technological
    cooperation there and are content with this," he said.

    Talking about the settlement of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh,
    Sargsyan said, "The Azeri leadership is saying that the conflict could
    be resolved in a military way. I believe that at least two people -
    the supreme commander-in-chief and the defense minister - should
    therefore presume that military actions could start even tomorrow."

    "However, I do not consider this a proper way to resolve the
    problem. We can settle everything in a peaceful way," he said.
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