ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN STRATEGIC ALLIANCE TO LAST FOR VERY LONG TIME: ARMENIAN MPS SAY

/ARKA/
September 15, 2011
YEREVAN

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~Rs 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~R 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.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress