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Azatutyun Radiokayan (29 March 2024)

Shoghik Galstian

Russian troops and border guards stationed in Armenia are “the only real guarantee” of the country’s sovereignty, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

“Claims that their withdrawal will somehow strengthen the military potential of the republic are dangerous demagogy,” the TASS news agency quoted an unnamed representative of the ministry as saying. “While forcing [Armenia] to revise the existing security system already today, the West does not offer anything concrete in return.”

The official reacted to a report released on Wednesday by the Friends of Armenia Network, a group of current and former European policy-makers set up last September by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

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