Armenian-Russian Strategic Alliance To Last For Very Long Time: Armenian MPs Say
16.09.2011,
03:06
Aram Safarian, a member of the Armenian National Assembly from the Prosperous Armenia party, said today he was " absolutely convinced that the Armenian-Russian strategic alliance and partnership is to last for a very long time
YEREVAN, September 15. / ARKA /. Aram Safarian, a member of the Armenian National Assembly from the Prosperous Armenia party, said today he was " absolutely convinced that the Armenian-Russian strategic alliance and partnership is to last for a very long time." Aram Safarian is the co-chairman of the Russian-Armenian inter-parliamentary commission.
He said this during a televised conference on the present and future of Russian-Armenian relations, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Armenia's independence. In his words, Armenian-Russian relations were not created in a year or ten or twenty years.
"We have common traditions, interpenetration of our cultures and civilization identity. I believe that even if some forces have a strong desire to quickly destroy these ties, they will fail," he said, adding that it is necessary to continue the existing traditions, to use all the resources and traditions to give a new impetus to cooperation.
A member of the Armenian-Russian inter-parliamentary commission Hermine Naghdalian from the Republican Party of Armenia, stressed that over the 20 years of independence the two countries have managed to retain a sense of friendship and fraternity. She recalled Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s state visit to Armenia, which was his first visit to the region, and the opening of a monument to Russian officers killed in the Russian-Turkish war, saying this testifies of the peoples’ attitude to bilateral cooperation.
According to her, political relations between the two countries are at a very high level, Armenia shares Russia's position on the issue of the CIS, the two countries have allied positions on the issues of collective security, especially that Armenia is the only member of the Collectives Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the region. –0—
He said this during a televised conference on the present and future of Russian-Armenian relations, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Armenia's independence. In his words, Armenian-Russian relations were not created in a year or ten or twenty years.
"We have common traditions, interpenetration of our cultures and civilization identity. I believe that even if some forces have a strong desire to quickly destroy these ties, they will fail," he said, adding that it is necessary to continue the existing traditions, to use all the resources and traditions to give a new impetus to cooperation.
A member of the Armenian-Russian inter-parliamentary commission Hermine Naghdalian from the Republican Party of Armenia, stressed that over the 20 years of independence the two countries have managed to retain a sense of friendship and fraternity. She recalled Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s state visit to Armenia, which was his first visit to the region, and the opening of a monument to Russian officers killed in the Russian-Turkish war, saying this testifies of the peoples’ attitude to bilateral cooperation.
According to her, political relations between the two countries are at a very high level, Armenia shares Russia's position on the issue of the CIS, the two countries have allied positions on the issues of collective security, especially that Armenia is the only member of the Collectives Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the region. –0—
