FORMER PARLIAMENT DEPUTY SPEAKER: WAS PRESIDENT SARGSYAN AFRAID OF RAISING C-300 ISSUE WITH MEDVEDEV?
Kristine Aghalaryan
2010/08/23
At a press conference held earlier today, Karapet Rubinyan, a former
Deputy Speaker of the RoA National Assembly, said that the sale of
C-300 antimissile defense systems to Azerbaijan by Russia can be
construed as an outright anti-Armenian move.
“Such a move turns Azerbaijan, our enemy, inviolable and frees its
hand when striking at Armenia and Karabakh. In response, if Russia
assumes the security of Armenia, that of Karabakh remains an open
question,” Mr. Rubinyan noted.
He noted that the media had little to say about the sale of the C-300
system during Russian President Medvedey’s recent visit to Armenia
and that Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov as much as verified the sale,
for which he received the Mashtots medal from the Armenian government.
The people of Armenia, noted Mr. Rubinyan, have no idea whether the
sale of such sophisticated military technology to Azerbaijan is a
source of concern for the Armenian government.
“Was the issue ever raised with Medvedev? Can I assume that
President Sargsyan feared even mentioning the issue with the Russian
president?” asked Mr. Rubinyan.
From: A. Papazian