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    Aide says Armenian-Georgian ties may help solve Tbilisi's problems with Moscow

    Mediamax news agency, Yerevan, in Russian 1130 gmt 19 Aug 05

    Yerevan, 19 August: "The deepening of cooperation between Armenia and
    Georgia and personal contacts between the two countries' presidents
    can play a positive role in resolving the existing problems between
    Moscow and Tbilisi," the Armenian president's press secretary, Viktor
    Sogomonyan, said in an interview with Mediamax new agency today.

    Sogomonyan said this while commenting at Mediamax's request on
    the statements of some Russian political analysts that Armenia's
    rapprochement with Georgia allegedly testified to Yerevan's intention
    to "turn its back" on Moscow.

    "There is no reason to say that the rapprochement between Tbilisi
    and Yerevan might mean the change in the relations between Armenia
    and Russia. This is absolutely incorrect perception of events. We
    should consider relations of both Yerevan and Moscow with their
    common neighbours in the region in the context of Armenian-Russian
    strategic partnership as a certain mediation resource for resolving
    touchy problems. For example, Yerevan perceives the development of
    Russian-Turkish or Russian-Azerbaijani cooperation in an exclusively
    positive fashion.

    "There is clear-cut understanding that this can only have a positive
    impact on the establishment of a lasting peace in the region, the
    establishment of the Armenian-Turkish political dialogue and the
    settlement of the Karabakh conflict," the press secretary of the
    Armenian president pointed out.

    "Similarly, the deepening of cooperation between Armenia and Georgia
    and personal contacts of the two countries' presidents can play a
    positive role in resolving the existing problems between Moscow and
    Tbilisi. I am confident that this is the most correct approach to
    `Moscow's view ' of the current stage of the Armenian-Georgian
    relations," Sogomonyan said.
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