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    Interfax, Russia
    May 15 2009


    Russian officials welcome Armenia's refusal to join NATO drill in Georgia


    Armenia's decision to refuse to participate in NATO exercises in
    Georgia is justified, The Russian news agency Interfax quoted the
    secretary-general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
    (CSTO) as saying on 15 May.

    CSTO Secretary-General Nikolay Bordyuzha said: "It is an absolutely
    justified decision, because the holding of an exercise on Georgian
    territory is nothing but the demonstration of NATO's support for
    Georgia's actions in South Ossetia a year ago."

    Bordyuzha added: "It is simply a provocation to demonstrate support
    for aggressors today."

    In a later report the same day, ITAR-TASS news agency quoted Russian
    Security Council Deputy Secretary Yuriy Zubakov as saying that Russia
    highly appreciates "the position of Armenian partners, who having
    thoroughly assessed the situation, took a decision to refrain from
    participating in the exercises" of NATO in Georgia. He was speaking at
    an international conference on security and cooperation in Caucasus in
    Yerevan on 15 May, ITAR-TASS said.

    Zubakov said: "Undoubtedly, one could act in a more clever way: to
    find a better place for such exercise than the conflict region or to
    postpone it for a later period." He added that the holding of the
    exercise "discredits the Partnership for Peace programme which is
    further exacerbating the regional tension instead of strengthening
    security and cooperation".
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