NATO Highlights Peaceful Settlement of Conflicts in South CaucasusJuly 31, 2006 - 17:30 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The key security aspects are political issues including the Euro-Atlantic integration of the South Caucasian states, the integration with EU and NATO, the national security concept, national defense strategy and foreign policy goals, NATO Liaison Officer in the Caucasus Romualds Razuks said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net In his words, it's essential to develop practical regional cooperation among the partners from the South Caucasus and the Black Sea region as well as with Russia."One of the principal directions is combating terrorism. We also highlight struggle against corruption and bringing of the national legislation in line with international standards, ratification of relevant CoE conventions (e.g. social chapter, national minorities). The IPAP also provides for steps towards economic reforms including remuneration system for public servants, management of public enterprises, privatization process, state procurement process, statistical records for tax collection, foreign trade and balance payments statistics, antimonopoly legislation and competition policy," he said. The NATO Liaison Officer underscored that NATO attaches importance to a peaceful settlement of conflicts. "We consider that the leading role in the peaceful conflict resolution policy belongs to the OSCE and U.N. The measures include determination of status of autonomies, return of refugees and IDP's rehabilitation of conflict zones and complementarity of actions of international organizations in Georgia. NATO partnership policy is developing and covering new regions as well as setting new priorities with a strategic goal of enhancing security and stability. South Caucasus was declared NATO's geographical priority. New partnership tools and schemes of cooperation including the IPAP are introduced well adjusting them to already existing ones and making a good use of both. Joining by Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan of the IPAP process is a promising step towards promoting regional as well as Euro-Atlantic security," Razuks said. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine 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. 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. |