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Mediamax, Armenia
Sept 10 2011
Armenia against terror
Saturday 10 September 2011 16:17
Threats assessment, nuclear security, peacekeeping, fight against
money laundering.
A few days after the 9/11 Armenian President Robert Kocharian met U.S.
Ambassador Michael Lemmon and said Armenia was ready to support the
efforts aimed at the elimination of the threats of international
terrorism.
In the interview, published the next day in the Russian newspaper
`Kommersant', Robert Kocharian said: `International community should
actively cooperate to fight against international terrorism. A new
situation has aroused - we can realize it. But what to do - that is
what we all are thinking about.'
On September 21, speaking at a formal meeting dedicated to the 10th
anniversary of independence of Armenia, the President said: `The
events of September 11th in the USA shook the whole world with their
cruelty. We mourn with America and think that evil should be punished.
We are ready for cooperation within our modest possibilities.
Terrorism becomes an ideology in its most outrageous displays. Armenia
itself has experienced its consequences. We are certain that in the
struggle against this evil, the world community is in need of joint
coordinated efforts.'
The issue of fight against terrorism was the main highlight at the
summit of the heads of Collective Security Treaty (CST)
member-countries, held in Yerevan May 2011. The Yerevan statement by
the heads of CST member-countries expressed `serious concern about the
growing threat of international terrorism and extremism, which gains
coordinated nature.'
NKR Foreign Minister Naira Melkumian told CNA agency in an interview
in September, 2001:
`One shouldn't forget that Osama bin Laden and his followers in the
Caucasian region have frequently mentioned Nagorno Karabakh as one of
their targets in their struggle to establish order which would
correspond to what is called Islamic radicalism. They considered the
population of Nagorno Karabakh as an object for destruction, with the
aim of subsequent establishment of Islamic laws there. From this
viewpoint, we certainly count on the neutralization of these calls,
which some day might find their manifestation in Karabakh as well. We
conceivably support all the efforts in this direction.'
A year after the 9/11 Armenia hosted Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
(EAPC) seminar entitled `Combat against international terrorism:
perspectives of regional cooperation in the South Caucasus'.
Addressing the seminar Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Tatul
Margarian said: `there is a threat of international terrorism in the
region of the South Caucasus'.
Over the past years Armenia took different measures to fight against
international terrorism. We present you some of them:
- In February 2005 Armenia joined the operation in Iraq. Today the
mission in Iraq is over and the main forces of the Armenian
peacekeepers are concentrated in Afghanistan. This year Armenian
authorities decided to triple the number of Armenian servicemen taking
part in the ISAF mission under the German Command. And unlike the Iraq
case, where Armenia was presented with drivers and de-miners, Yerevan
sent combat units to Afghanistan.
- In May 2007 the Armenian government has announced its decision to
become a partner-state of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear
Terrorism and in July 2008 Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian
and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a Joint Action
Plan on Combating Smuggling of Nuclear and Radioactive Materials.
- In June 2007 The Financial Monitoring Center of the Central Bank of
Armenia became a full member of Egmont Group, which unites the
financial intelligence services of over 100 countries of the world for
the joint struggle against laundering of illegal incomes and financing
terrorist activities.
Sept 10 2011
Armenia against terror
Saturday 10 September 2011 16:17
Threats assessment, nuclear security, peacekeeping, fight against
money laundering.
A few days after the 9/11 Armenian President Robert Kocharian met U.S.
Ambassador Michael Lemmon and said Armenia was ready to support the
efforts aimed at the elimination of the threats of international
terrorism.
In the interview, published the next day in the Russian newspaper
`Kommersant', Robert Kocharian said: `International community should
actively cooperate to fight against international terrorism. A new
situation has aroused - we can realize it. But what to do - that is
what we all are thinking about.'
On September 21, speaking at a formal meeting dedicated to the 10th
anniversary of independence of Armenia, the President said: `The
events of September 11th in the USA shook the whole world with their
cruelty. We mourn with America and think that evil should be punished.
We are ready for cooperation within our modest possibilities.
Terrorism becomes an ideology in its most outrageous displays. Armenia
itself has experienced its consequences. We are certain that in the
struggle against this evil, the world community is in need of joint
coordinated efforts.'
The issue of fight against terrorism was the main highlight at the
summit of the heads of Collective Security Treaty (CST)
member-countries, held in Yerevan May 2011. The Yerevan statement by
the heads of CST member-countries expressed `serious concern about the
growing threat of international terrorism and extremism, which gains
coordinated nature.'
NKR Foreign Minister Naira Melkumian told CNA agency in an interview
in September, 2001:
`One shouldn't forget that Osama bin Laden and his followers in the
Caucasian region have frequently mentioned Nagorno Karabakh as one of
their targets in their struggle to establish order which would
correspond to what is called Islamic radicalism. They considered the
population of Nagorno Karabakh as an object for destruction, with the
aim of subsequent establishment of Islamic laws there. From this
viewpoint, we certainly count on the neutralization of these calls,
which some day might find their manifestation in Karabakh as well. We
conceivably support all the efforts in this direction.'
A year after the 9/11 Armenia hosted Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
(EAPC) seminar entitled `Combat against international terrorism:
perspectives of regional cooperation in the South Caucasus'.
Addressing the seminar Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Tatul
Margarian said: `there is a threat of international terrorism in the
region of the South Caucasus'.
Over the past years Armenia took different measures to fight against
international terrorism. We present you some of them:
- In February 2005 Armenia joined the operation in Iraq. Today the
mission in Iraq is over and the main forces of the Armenian
peacekeepers are concentrated in Afghanistan. This year Armenian
authorities decided to triple the number of Armenian servicemen taking
part in the ISAF mission under the German Command. And unlike the Iraq
case, where Armenia was presented with drivers and de-miners, Yerevan
sent combat units to Afghanistan.
- In May 2007 the Armenian government has announced its decision to
become a partner-state of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear
Terrorism and in July 2008 Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian
and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a Joint Action
Plan on Combating Smuggling of Nuclear and Radioactive Materials.
- In June 2007 The Financial Monitoring Center of the Central Bank of
Armenia became a full member of Egmont Group, which unites the
financial intelligence services of over 100 countries of the world for
the joint struggle against laundering of illegal incomes and financing
terrorist activities.