RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA
By Aghavni Harutyunian
AZG Armenian Daily
21/12/2006
According to the Armenian national safety document, the
Armenian-Georgian relations are characterized as strategic, while,
according to the relevant Georgian document, these relations are merely
friendly. The relations with Azerbaijan are strategic for Georgia,
instead. Mr. Oskanian, RA Foreign Minister, explained that Georgia
is really a country of strategic importance for Armenia, as the gas
pipeline passes through its territory, as well as the goods transfers.
He added that it is up to Georgia to decide what kind of relations
it will have with Armenia.
As for the cooperation between the European Union and Armenia, Oskanian
said that the relations will develop in two directions, in particular,
he meant multilateral relations with the very EU and the commission,
and, secondly, bilateral relations between Armenia and the EU member
states. He added that they will specify what programs they will carry
out with a concrete state only in January- February. Mr. Oskanian also
informed that in the first half of the next year they will begin the
process of evaluating the NATO IPAP implementation in the past period.