ARMENIAN PRESIDENT: WE HOPE GEORGIA WILL MANAGE TO COMBINE ASPIRATION FOR NATO MEMBERSHIP AND RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES

Monday 3 February 2014 16:36
Photo: Press service of the Armenian President

Armenian President: We hope Georgia will manage to combine aspiration
for NATO membership and relations with neighboring countries

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan expressed
his hope that “Georgia will manage to combine aspiration for NATO
membership and relations with neighboring countries”.

The Armenian President stated it in an interview to “Lidove Noviny”
(“People’s News”) Czech newspaper, Mediamax reports.

“It’s Georgia’s sovereign right, just like any other country’s,
to choose the security system which would best ensure its national
interests. I would like to hope Georgia will manage to combine
aspiration for NATO membership and relations with neighboring
countries, including those states that play a major role in our
regional security”, Serzh Sargsyan said.

He stated that out of the neighboring countries only Turkey is NATO
member state and although Armenia strengthens partner relations with
NATO quite effectively, “we have never noted other NATO member states
to point at Turkey within the treaty format for causing a major harm
to NATO partner state with its actions”.

“Our involvement in the security system of the North-Atlantic Alliance
is paradoxical when our security is directly disturbed by the policy
of a NATO member state”, the President said.

From: A. Papazian