Interfax
Sept 22 2004
Armenia doesn't intend to join NATO but will deepen relations
Yerevan. (Interfax) - Armenia intends to deepen relations with NATO
but has no plans of joining the alliance, Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanian told a Wednesday news conference.
"Our stance amounts to the maximum expansion and deepening of
relations with the alliance. I don't know what NATO thinks of it but
membership in the alliance is not on our agenda today," he said.
As for Armenia's plans for sending a group of 50 servicemen to Iraq,
Oskanian said that it would be a humanitarian mission consisting of
doctors, drivers and sappers.
He emphasized that from the very start Armenia was opposed to
military presence in Iraq.
Sept 22 2004
Armenia doesn't intend to join NATO but will deepen relations
Yerevan. (Interfax) - Armenia intends to deepen relations with NATO
but has no plans of joining the alliance, Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanian told a Wednesday news conference.
"Our stance amounts to the maximum expansion and deepening of
relations with the alliance. I don't know what NATO thinks of it but
membership in the alliance is not on our agenda today," he said.
As for Armenia's plans for sending a group of 50 servicemen to Iraq,
Oskanian said that it would be a humanitarian mission consisting of
doctors, drivers and sappers.
He emphasized that from the very start Armenia was opposed to
military presence in Iraq.