NATO will fulfill promise not to deploy forces in Central Asia and CaucasusOctober 24, 2007 - 15:12 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - NATO confirms that it's not going to deploy forces in Central Asia and Caucasus even if states from these regions join the Alliance. "We undertook not to deploy forces in these countries," said Robert Simmons, NATO's special representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia."We will not go back on our promise even if some Caucasus states join the Alliance," he said adding the has been no political decision on possible accession of Caucasus countries to NATO so far, Interfax reports. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |