ARMENIA ASSISTING NATO TO AVERT DANGERS
Support A1+!Today NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons came to meet journalists alone though he was scheduled to give a joint press conference with Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan. It turned out that the Minister has caught a cold and slightly ails.
Robert Simmons said he is satisfied with the level of the cooperation between Armenia and NATO and also introduced the NATO Officer-Coordinator, who will assist to the working out and implementation of the program of NATO-Armenia cooperation, to the Armenian leadership.
“Armenia is assisting NATO to combat the threats we are facing”, Robert Simmons noted.
Mr. Simmons highly appreciated the decision of the Armenian leadership to send a contingent to Iraq. When touching upon Armenia’s being a CSTO member-state he stated that NATO and CSTO are not rival organizations and advised not to mix NATO’s historical relations with the former USSR republics including today’s Russia.
NATO Secretary General's Representative said that NATO is open for those states, which meet the accepted standards. Presently 3 states – Albania, South Macedonia and Croatia – are aspirants for NATO membership. Mr. Simmons also noted that the three South Caucasian stated expressed wish to join NATO.
