REPORT ON ARMENIA TO BE DISCUSSED IN NATO

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On March 14, “Friday” Club hosted Samvel Mkrtchyan, Ambassador of Armenia to NATO. He dwelt on the Armenia-NATO relations, implementation of the Individual Partnership Action Plan signed between Armenia-NATO, as well as the report of the NATO commission on Armenia. “This is the best way to represent the stance of Armenia to the leading members of the military-political alliance”, Mr. Mkrtchyan says.

To remind; a NATO commission arrived in Armenia in January-February of the current year to observe the implementation of Individual Partnership Action Plan.

The report will likely be represented on April 14, during the recurrent sitting of NATO. The sitting will be presided over by the NATO General Secretary.

Vardan Oskanyan, RA Foreign Minister, and Serge Sargsyan, RA Defense Minister, will represent Armenia in the sitting.

RA Ambassador to NATO assures that the RA political agenda doesn’t cover the engagement of Armenia into NATO. “On the whole, the alliance is not interested in South Caucasian countries separately”.

As for the engagement of Georgia and Azerbaijan into NATO, Mr. Mkrtchyan says the countries will have to solve certain problems to become members of NATO.

While speaking about Georgia’s membership to NATO, Mr. Sargsyan pointed out, “We shall have a frontier with a NATO member country in case Georgia is admitted into NATO. Armenia already has a borderline with Turkey another NATO member country. But the frontier is not open as Armenia and Turkey are in unfriendly relations”.

Mr. Juan Fournet, General Secretary of NATO, seems content with the implementation of the Individual Partnership Action Plan, and the report will likely be in favour of Armenia, says the ambassador.