Epress.am News from Armenia
A new military union is being created where states come together not ideologically, but for military and economic interests, said political analyst Alexander Manasyan while meeting with journalists today and commenting on the recent CSTO unofficial summit in Yerevan.
“A number of post-Soviet states don’t tie their security with NATO, and the only force that can become a security anchor for them, it turns out, is Russia,” said the analyst.
According to Manasyan, Armenia must have security guarantees, “which, in the first place, are connected with the dangers coming from Azerbaijan and Turkey.”
“If we approach [the issue] logically, the choice that we’ve made — tying our security with CSTO — becomes explicable, if not inevitable,” said Manasyan, stressing, however, the conditions of the agreements.
The analyst also expressed a wish, in his words, to “disperse” the “naïveté and romance that governs [Armenian] mentality”— “We were right to sign that agreement, but we mustn’t tie our security 100% with it,” he said.