President Serzh Sargsyan does not see any prospects of installing another Russian military base in Armenia.
“I do not think there is a need for another (Russian) military base in Armenia, because the one already in place can embrace all elements it may need. One military base for little Armenia, I think, is enough. We just need to give bigger military power to it”, – President said in an interview to the Russian RIA Novosti news agency on November 17.
Dmitry Kiselyov, the director general of “Rossiya Segodnya” international news agency, interviewed the President of Armenia on a range of issues related to the development of bilateral relations with Russia in military, political and economic spheres, Nagorno Karabakh peace process, prospects of normalisation with Turkey, etc.
Reacting to Kiselyov’s remark that he wished the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan “would desire to stay in history as two leaders who brought peace to the region”, President Sargsyan elaborated:
“It is very important to me. It is very important, because I have devoted all my life to this issue”, adding that using force and other means of coercion by Azerbaijan against the inalienable right of peoples to self-determination in the case of Nagorno Karabakh had been both illegal, from the perspective of Soviet legislation or international law, and was in controversion with any set of values.
