Armenia's cooperation in CSTO framework and relations with NATO supplement each other

PanARMENIAN.Net - Today there is no issue of becoming a NATO member-state in Armenia's foreign agenda, RA Defense Minister Michael Haroutyunyan stated. He said, possibilities of coupling and relevantly synchronous, proportional development of security policy in both directions - NATO and CSTO, are conditioned with common tasks, which stand in front of these two security systems, common approaches to neutralize security threats, presence of common interests.



"Today it is becoming obvious that in order to settle security problems in their influence zones both CSTO and NATO added to their arsenal principally similar approaches and global scale and actuality of international threats moved aside existing differences, making the sides more and more widen frames of cooperation. Following the course of complimentary policy, within the limits of our possibilities we are trying to create a field of constructive cooperation between interested states and security systems, guiding ourselves by common interests and assisting alleviation of existing differences. We can say that Armenia's cooperation in the framework of CSTO and cooperation with NATO do not contradict each other, just the opposite, they supplement each other, creating additional guarantees for security both for our country and the whole region," Michael Haroutyunyan said, "Krasnaya Zvezda" reports.