Armenia Will Not Go to War with Georgia, Says Armenia’s President
Armenia’s current leadership will not take any steps which will distance the country from Russia, announced President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan in an interview with Russian paper Mosovski Komsomolets (http://www.mk.ru).
“As for the changes in relations with Turkey, if those are unacceptable for Russia, then why does Russia consider Turkey its military partner? Azerbaijan, similarly, is Russia’s military partner. Russia is a strong country, and it befriends whoever it chooses: one has oil; the other, gas. And what should be live on? Air?
“Here, even without that, a part of the borders are closed. Some people judge us, that after the events which took place in Georgia last year, we were safeguarding a connection with Georgia, though we are not prepared to become enemies with Georgia simply to satisfy someone. We are extremely close with each other. During the five-day war in South Ossetia, when the Tbilisi-Yerevan train stopped running for a time, there was practically no gas left in Armenia.
“Yes, imagine that we didn’t even have a one-week reserve of gas. We don’t have an exit to the outside world: on one side, Turkey is closed to us; on the other side, is Azerbaijan and the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh; the third border is Georgia. The possibility of having political freedom, [and] in order not to become cannon fodder, we are forced not to lose relations with our neighbours and to search for new alternative paths.
“Currently we are attempting to establish communication with Iran, to create a common railway, though that same Russia won’t help us in this regard. Why does everything work out this way if you are interested in us? What is there left for us to do?” said the Armenian president.
Source:Tert – Original Article
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