YEREVAN. – NATO will attempt to include Azerbaijan in its peacekeeping programs, Armenian Center for National and International Studies Director of Research, analyst Manvel Sargsyan stated during a press conference on Monday. 

“The West tries to have some bearing on Azerbaijan to convince it toward participating in the regional scenarios,” said Sargsyan.

Reflecting on NATO’s experience in deploying peacekeepers at the borders of Iran and Greece, the political scientist noted that everything is very complicated here because not everything is dependant on one side. 

To note, Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen held a joint news conference, in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan on September 6, during which they confirmed NATO’s and CSTO’s mutual acceptance of Armenia’s policy of complementarity. Rasmussen paid visits to Georgia and Azerbaijan, too.