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GEORGIA'S COOPERATION WITH TURKEY-AZERBAIJAN DUO INEVITABLE - ARMENIAN ANALYST
21:34 * 03.04.15
Despite its efforts to avoid a further deepening of cooperation with
Azerbaijan, Georgia has no choice but to pursue such policies, an
Armenian analyst has said, considering both political and economic
cooperation inevitable.
Speaking to Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan said he expects the Georgian,
Azerbaijani and Turkish defense ministers to sign a trilateral
partnership agreement in the course of their negotiations in Tbilisi.
"Georgia's presence in that format, as that of an obliged side, may
naturally create problems for Armenia, as the country is getting more
and more immersed in the circle evolving between these two states,"
he told our correspondent.
The expert said he thinks that the political and economic leverages
are the first constraints, which rapidly intensify through the big
energy communication companies founded in Georgia with the help of
Azerbaijani capital.
As another constraint, the expert cited ethnic pressures which he said
gradually gain more ground in Georgia thanks to Turkish-Azerbaijani
efforts.
At a trilateral meeting held earlier in Nakhichevan, a former Georgian
minister of defense said the Georgian-Turkish-Azerbaijani cooperation
was not targeted against third countries. But the Armenian expert
questions the frankness of such a statement. "The three countries
practically cooperate in three different sectors, with the military
cooperation practically adding to that. And the former Georgian
defense minister's statement is not clearly sincere, given that
Turkish-Azerbaijani policies in the South Caucasus are targeted
against two countries, Armenia, and - strange though it may be --
the Georgian side," he said.
"Turkey and Azerbaijan see today that Georgia is militarily an
attractive state for both NATO and separate states in the West in
general. And they actually try to fit themselves into than format
ahead of time," he added.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/04/03/hrant/1635659
From: A. Papazian
21:34 * 03.04.15
Despite its efforts to avoid a further deepening of cooperation with
Azerbaijan, Georgia has no choice but to pursue such policies, an
Armenian analyst has said, considering both political and economic
cooperation inevitable.
Speaking to Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan said he expects the Georgian,
Azerbaijani and Turkish defense ministers to sign a trilateral
partnership agreement in the course of their negotiations in Tbilisi.
"Georgia's presence in that format, as that of an obliged side, may
naturally create problems for Armenia, as the country is getting more
and more immersed in the circle evolving between these two states,"
he told our correspondent.
The expert said he thinks that the political and economic leverages
are the first constraints, which rapidly intensify through the big
energy communication companies founded in Georgia with the help of
Azerbaijani capital.
As another constraint, the expert cited ethnic pressures which he said
gradually gain more ground in Georgia thanks to Turkish-Azerbaijani
efforts.
At a trilateral meeting held earlier in Nakhichevan, a former Georgian
minister of defense said the Georgian-Turkish-Azerbaijani cooperation
was not targeted against third countries. But the Armenian expert
questions the frankness of such a statement. "The three countries
practically cooperate in three different sectors, with the military
cooperation practically adding to that. And the former Georgian
defense minister's statement is not clearly sincere, given that
Turkish-Azerbaijani policies in the South Caucasus are targeted
against two countries, Armenia, and - strange though it may be --
the Georgian side," he said.
"Turkey and Azerbaijan see today that Georgia is militarily an
attractive state for both NATO and separate states in the West in
general. And they actually try to fit themselves into than format
ahead of time," he added.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/04/03/hrant/1635659
From: A. Papazian