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    SMALL NATIONS SHOULD NOT INTERFERE IN CONFLICTS BETWEEN WORLD POWERS

    Interfax News Agency
    Aug 25 2008
    Russia

    Small Caucasian nations should try hard to smooth over contradictions
    between world powers that occur in their region, Armenian President
    Serzh Sargsyan said in an interview with the Austrian newspaper
    Der Standard.

    A key provision of our recent policy is that small nations located in
    the highly sensitive region should do their best to minimize possible
    confrontations between super powers instead of inflating them, he said.

    It is very easy for any region to get short-time benefits from
    contradictions between world powers that occur from time to time,
    he said. However, it is much more difficult and useful to cooperate
    impartially in the sphere of common interests.

    Bearing in mind the challenges we have to withstand, it would be
    senseless to create new division lines and artificial ideological
    groups, he said.

    Attempted armed resistance to the self-determination ambitions in
    South Caucasian nations is fraught with major military and geopolitical
    consequences, the president said.

    The latest events clearly showed the real danger presented by the
    arms race, unfounded enlargement of military budgets and militant
    declarations in the South Caucasus. They also showed that such
    conflicts should be settled through the free expression of will by
    the people seeking self-determination. Otherwise, ethnic cleansing
    and breach of international humanitarian laws would be unavoidable,
    he said.

    Strategic partnership with Russia has never impeded Armenia's normal
    and effective cooperation with regional and non-regional countries
    and international organizations. This is proven by the vast amount
    of joint programs with the EU and NATO and the dynamic relations with
    European states, the U.S. and Iran, Sargsyan said.

    Asked whether the Russian dominance in the South Caucasus was
    beneficial for Armenia, which housed a key Russian military base,
    Sargsyan said, I think that in our times military bases are symbols
    of efficient cooperation rather than of dominance.

    Efficient sovereignty is important for Armenia, the same as for any
    other state. The modern notion of sovereignty implies involvement in
    international and regional security systems, he said.
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