Armenia to cooperate with NATO, but has no ambition for Euro-Atlantic integration: President

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11.11.2008, 19:22

Armenia is cooperating with NATO without any ambition for becoming its member, RA President Serzh Sargsyan told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

YEREVAN, November 11. /ARKA/. Armenia is cooperating with NATO without any ambition for becoming its member, RA President Serzh Sargsyan told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

“We believe cooperation with NATO is part of our national security strategy, but we do not want to integrate into the Allies, taking into account the danger of changing boundary lines in the region,” the president said, bringing as an example the Georgian war.

To the question whether Armenia’s neighbors should integrate into NATO, Sargsyan said he had no intention to decide for others.

“For the past ten years, we heave tried to balance the interests of the United States, Russia and NATO,” the president said, adding it is both extremely attractive and dangerous to try gain from contradictions between those countries. Z. Sh. –0--

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