Armenian General Staff Head Sees no Changes in Russian-Armenian Relations

PanARMENIAN.Net - First Deputy Defense Minister of Armenia, Head of General Staff of the Armed Forces, Colonel General Mikayel Harutyunyan considers linking domestic situation in Armenia with Russian-Armenian relations inadmissible. "I do not see any changes in Russian-Armenian relations. Both the President and the Defense Minister constantly repeat that we were and we will be strategic partners," Harutyunyan said. He added that accession to the NATO is not on Armenia's agenda today.



"We are a CSTO member, and a state cannot be member of two military organizations simultaneously," he emphasized. "I believe that in the prospect we will be in the CSTO, which is part of our state security," the General Staff Head said. Armenia want to have normal relations with other countries. "I mean states of the European Union, which are NATO members," Harutyunyan underscored. "Our relations with the NATO advance normally and we have an Individual Partnership Action Plan," he added, reports Novosti-Armenia.