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    ARMENIAN ANALYST ON NATO AND IRAN
    Messenger Staff

    The Messenger
    June 1 2010
    Georgia

    Armenian Iranist Goar Iskanderian suggests that NATO is interested
    in having a presence in the South Caucasus in order to resolve
    the Karabakh conflict but Armenia is a member of the CIS and its
    Collective Security Treaty, therefore NATO can only get involved in
    Karabakh problem regulation if Russia accepts this. Moreover, Iran
    is totally against extra players entering the region, as it says
    regional problems should be solved by regional states.

    The analyst thinks that if any peacekeeping forces are deployed in
    the conflict zone Iran will be against these being either NATO or
    Collective Security Treaty forces, preferring UN peacekeepers. This
    would be acceptable to all UN member countries.

    In a response to a statement by the NATO Secretary General that the
    alliance is not being included in conflict resolution issues Armenia's
    President Serzh Sarkisian did not exclude NATO participation in the
    resolution of the Karabakh conflict. Such inclusion is possible if
    a military confrontation occurs, he said. He added that the Karabakh
    problem is discussed by the OSCE Minsk Group, which is involved not
    only in the resolution of the problem itself but normalising bilateral
    relations between the conflicting countries.

    Sarkisian said that NATO is responsible for the security of Europe
    as a whole as Europe has no collective armed forces apart from NATO.

    However he made it clear that his words should not be construed as
    an invitation to NATO to enter the region.




    From: A. Papazian
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