April 3, 2003 - 22:44 AMT
ARMENIA NOT DISCUSSING JOINING "RUSSIA-BELARUS" UNION YET
The possibility of accession of Armenia to the Russia-Belarus union state is not on Armenia's agenda. According to "De Facto" agency, Armenian foreign ministry press secretary Dzyunik Aghajanian responded this way to the statement of state secretary of the union state Pavel Borodin that Russia and Belarus come for Armenia's joining the Russian-Belarus union. At the same time P. Borodin also said that the union would be of exclusively economic nature. In his words, Armenia along with Ukraine and Kazakhstan is interested "in the soonest possible restoration of the post-Soviet space first of all in economic respect."