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    RUSSIA ASSURES ARMENIANS AGAINST TURKEY
    By Foreign News Desk, Istanbul

    Zaman Online, Turkey
    March 9 2006

    Armenia trusts the military cooperation with Russia against any
    threats that might come from Turkey.

    A report titled "Armenian National Security Strategy Tendencies,"
    prepared by the National Security Council under Armenian Defense
    Minister Serzh Sarkisyan, has defended that Russian units stationed in
    Armenia, with the help of Armenian-Russian cooperation, will paralyze
    any possible Turkish threats.

    According to the news published on "Panarmenian.com" website, the
    report details the development of a strategic cooperation between
    Russia and Armenia in fields such as the "involvement in coalition
    groups, common air defense system and collaboration in the Security
    Collaboration Organization, including some former Soviet countries".

    Pointing at the importance of Russian and Armenian relations within
    the multinational structure, the report indicates the air defense
    system as an example.

    Cooperation with both NATO and Russia

    Serzh Sarkisyan, in his speech to Russian reporters on Wednesday in
    the Armenian capital Yerevan, highlighted the news reported in the
    Russian press claiming that Armenia aims at achieving North Atlantic
    Treaty Organization (NATO) standards in the army.

    Their target is to attain world standards for the Armenian army by
    2015, Sarkisyan said; Armenia has never concealed their relations with
    NATO from Russia, or the military cooperation with Russia from NATO.

    He also advocated that their military cooperation with NATO favors
    the cooperation between Armenia and Russia. "We do not want war;
    however, if required, we are ready to fight," the Armenian defense
    minister declared.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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