ARMENIA SHOULD DECIDE WHICH SECURITY SYSTEM IT SEES ITSELF IN FUTURE, DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER OF ARMENIA CONSIDERS

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia should decide which security system it sees itself belonging to in the future. Deputy foreign minister of Armenia Ruben Shugarian stated it in his today's speech at the conference on military security issues and prospects of establishing peace in the Caucasus. He also noted that each of the South Caucasian Republics has its own notion of development. "Georgia left one of the security systems and did not join another. Azerbaijan is in a transitional stage not having withdrawn from the old system. Armenia remains in the old security system trying to expand its elements," - R.Shugarian said. At the same time he noted that after the events in US September 11 the necessity to develop joint policy for the three South Caucasian Republics on further development of the region has come out. "If we can find a common approach and work out a common regional policy, the South Caucasus will become an independent geopolitical unit," - the deputy minister considers. Otherwise, in Shugarian's words, the region will "merge into a bigger one in geopolitical respect, after which the question will be only that of common trilateral relations." On this occasion, R.Shugarian stressed that Armenia should "find its place as a link in the region."