SERGE SARGSYAN: MILITARY ACTIONS WILL NOT RESUME IN FORESEEABLE FUTURE
Public Radio, Armenia
Nov 28 2006
"Today the threat of resumption of war has not been completely
eliminated, but I can definitely assert that military actions will
not resume in the foreseeable future," Secretary of the Presidential
Council on National Security, RA Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan
said in Noyemberyan during the meeting with parents of the region’s
servicemen. According to him, being a frontier settlement, Tavush was
the first to feel the consequences of the war. "The Defense Minister
must be always ready that the war may start tomorrow, but there is
no real threat of war in the nearest future," noted Serge Sargsyan.
Turning to the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the
Defense Minister expressed confidence that the issue should be
resolved based on mutual concessions. The main objective is the
following: NKR people should live safely on its land. According to
Serge Sargsyan, the security guarantee is that Artsakh must never
be under Azerbaijani control or exist separately as an enclave and
should have a land border with Armenia. The Minister informed that
today the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Robert Kocharyan and
Ilham Aliev will meet in Minsk today.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
