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    Baku Today, Azerbaijan
    June 8 2005

    Azerbaijani Minister: South Caucasus Needs Demilitarization

    08/06/2005 08:25

    The Russian news agency RIA Novosti quotes Azerbaijani Foreign
    Minister Elmar Mamedyarov as saying that the transfer of Russian
    military bases from Georgia to Armenia is not illegal.



    `Bases will be transferred not to Armenia, but to the Russian
    military base deployed in Armenia and in terms of legality, there is
    no problem in this. However, we consider the issue this way - our
    region [South Caucasus] needs demilitarization rather than
    militarization. Hence, there is no need to keep troops and tanks
    here,' RIA Novosti quotes Mamedyarov as saying.

    He said that as soon as Moscow and Tbilisi finalize the agreement on
    the pullout of Russian military bases from Georgia, `we will analyze
    this issue and take relevant steps.'

    Recently, official Baku sent a protest note to Moscow regarding the
    transfer of Russian military bases to Armenia.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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