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    SPEAKER DENIES ARMENIA DEPENDS ON RUSSIA

    ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow
    7 Sep 05

    Washington, 7 September: The chairman of the Armenian National
    Assembly, Artur Bagdasaryan, disagrees with the view of some American
    experts that his country's political, economic and military dependence
    on Russia is very high. "Russia is a friend of Armenia," Bagdasaryan
    said in his address to the Washington Woodrow Wilson International
    Centre on 6 September.

    At the same time, he noted that there has really emerged an "imbalance"
    in Armenia's relations with other countries. Due to historical reasons
    and the geopolitical situation of recent years, relations between
    Yerevan and Moscow are incomparably wider than with Washington,
    Paris or London.

    The "potential" of mutually beneficial contacts between Armenia,
    the USA and Europe is not being exploited in full," Bagdasaryan said.

    The speaker of the Armenian parliament said that his country needs
    to develop relations with both NATO and the USA, including in the
    military sphere. However, the key direction of Yerevan's foreign
    policy, the speaker said, must be integration into European political
    and economic organizations.

    In a conversation with a correspondent of ITAR-TASS, Bagdasaryan said
    that he had discussed ways of further developing American-Armenian
    relations with representatives of the administration and leaders of
    the US congress.

    On 6 September, the speaker of the Armenian National Assembly left
    for New York to take part in the second UN conference of parliament
    speakers.
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