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    RIA Novosti, Russia
    July 4 2005

    Russia has greatest influence on Armenia - poll
    16:09

    YEREVAN, July 4 (RIA Novosti, Gamlet Matevosyan) - Most Armenians say
    that Russia has the greatest influence on their country.

    Stepan Safaryan of the Armenian Strategic and National Research
    Center (ATsSNI) said that 85% of experts polled and 58.9% of other
    respondents considered Russia to be the country with the greatest
    influence on Armenia.

    Safaryan also said that 52.5% of the Armenian experts supported
    Armenia joining NATO, with 30% against. Most supporters of NATO
    accession (63.7%) said that Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan needed a
    common security system, and 31.8% of them said that NATO was the most
    effective.

    77.8% of experts who opposed joining NATO said Armenia would not be
    welcome in the alliance, while 22.2% said accession was impossible
    because of tensions with Turkey.

    Safaryan said that only 34.7% of civilian respondents backed the idea
    of the accession to NATO, citing the need for an effective security
    system, while 33.9% were against, saying Armenia should remain a
    member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which also
    includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

    ATsSNI conducted the poll of 40 experts and 1,500 civilians on June
    18-25.
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