STRENGTHENING OF US-RUSSIAN COOPERATION IN SOUTH CAUCASUS TO BENEFIT
ARMENIA
YEREVAN, MARCH 19. ARMINFO. Intensified US-Russian cooperation in the
South Caucasus will certainly benefit Armenia but this requires
political will on Russia’s part, says the leader of Liberal
Progressive Party of Armenia Hovhannes Hovhannissyan.
Meanwhile Russia is seeking to enlarge or at least retain its empire
ambitions over the neighboring regions with the recent events in
Moldova being the best evidence of that. The objective of Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s shortly coming to Armenia is to find out if
Armenia is still Russia’s outpost or not.
As to the situation in Iran Hovhannissyan doubts that there will be
war there. Iran is not Iraq and the US and Europe will more likely try
to carry out deep democratic reforms in that country. But still one
cannot rule out the possibility of war if Iran refuses to freeze its
nuclear programs.