Interfax News Agency, Russia
Aug 13 2008
ARMENIA'S WITHDRAWAL FROM CIS OUT OF THE QUESTION - DIPLOMAT
Armenia does not plan to respond to Georgia's call to withdraw from
the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Armenia's Deputy Foreign
Minister Gegam Garibdzhanian told Interfax.
The issue of withdrawal from the CIS cannot be entered in Armenia's
foreign-policy agenda, Garibdzhanian said in remarks about Georgian
President Mikheil Saakashvili 's announcement that Georgia was pulling
out of the CIS and his call for other CIS members to do the same.
We did not receive an official notification from Tbilisi saying that
Georgia was withdrawing from the CIS, he said.
Aug 13 2008
ARMENIA'S WITHDRAWAL FROM CIS OUT OF THE QUESTION - DIPLOMAT
Armenia does not plan to respond to Georgia's call to withdraw from
the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Armenia's Deputy Foreign
Minister Gegam Garibdzhanian told Interfax.
The issue of withdrawal from the CIS cannot be entered in Armenia's
foreign-policy agenda, Garibdzhanian said in remarks about Georgian
President Mikheil Saakashvili 's announcement that Georgia was pulling
out of the CIS and his call for other CIS members to do the same.
We did not receive an official notification from Tbilisi saying that
Georgia was withdrawing from the CIS, he said.