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The
editor - in - chief of the opposition Yerevan newspaper «Aikakan Jamanak» («Armenian
time»), Nicol Pashinyan counts that last events testify that during recent
visit of the president of Russia to Yerevan, Robert Kocharyan
received the assignment from Vladimir Putin «to run down» on Georgia. As
writes Nicol Pashinyan in latest number of the newspaper, «it is possible to
assume, that Robert Kocharyan with pleasure has accepted this order because the
bargain promises mutual advantages». The editor asserts that the instable
situation created as a result of the Armianian-Georgia conflict will allow
Russia not to withdraw military base from Ahalkalaki that will make impossible
the introduction of Georgia into the NATO. «Robert Kocharyan wins the following
- in Armenia will be declared, the martial law that will allow to postpone
presidential elections of 2003 for uncertain time» - asserts Nicol Pashinyan.
In
other publication of the newspaper under heading of Anti-Georgian propaganda has
begun", it is marked, that on Sunday Public TV of Armenia has shown film
about Armenians living in Abkhazia, about their participation in operations
against Georgia during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. «The impression is created,
that with similar propaganda actions, Armenia started «cold war» against
Georgia», - writes «Aikakan Jamanak».
In
the meantime, according to Georgian MASS-MEDIA, the high-ranking official
representative of NATO declared, that North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
is not going to soften the position in a question on performance by Russia of
conditions of the Contract on usual armed forces in Europe and decisions of
Istanbul (1999) summit of OSCE about conclusion of Russian military bases from
territory of Georgia. As informed in the press center of mission of Georgia in
the NATO, this high-ranking official, wished to remain not named, declared, that
any changes in a position of an alliance on these questions are not present and
will not be.
As
he said, published on October 1, on the eve of visit of Russian president
Vladimir Putin to Brussels in British by «Financial Times», the article on
this subject with opposite conclusions «is rather far from the validity». In
article published in «Financial Times», the author writes, that in
negotiations of president Putin in headquarters of the NATO, the problem of a
conclusion of the Russian military bases from territory of Georgia hardly will
rise, as support of Moscow is necessary for the West for realization of military
operation against Afghanistan.
The
position of the NATO in questions of performance of the Contract about usual
armed forces in Europe and decisions of the Istanbul summit of OSCE was
precisely fixed by Russia at sessions by ministerial council foreign has put
also defenses of the countries of alliance in 1999-2001 years and any changes
has not undergone, the representative of the NATO emphasized. The position of
the NATO is, that Russia in due time should strictly carry out the decisions
passed in Istanbul on a conclusion from territory of Georgia of the military
bases, he told. In any other case, he emphasized, the leadership of the NATO
does not see an opportunity of introduction in action of the adapted Contract
about usual armed forces in Europe.
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