Wednesday, March 9 2022 15:43

ArmInfo. Regrettably, the current Ukraine crisis means a renewed nuclear threat, Chairman of the Republic party Aram Sargsyan said in an interview with ArmInfo. 

"We see Russia attempting to force its own rules of geopolitical game  on other nations, issuing threats, including a nuclear threat.  Regardless of whether Moscow intends to use nuclear weapons or not,  the imprecise Russian conventional weapons could cause a situation  when a missile that would enter the territory of a European country  could provoke a war with NATO, which could escalate into a nuclear  war," he said. 

Another threat is the nuclear-power plants in Ukraine. According to  Mr Sargsyan, their safe operation depends on not only their being  under Russian or Ukrainian troops' control. Should a shell hit a  nuclear reactor of one of the NPPs, it will cause a global disaster. 

The situation in Ukraine means both new threats and opportunities for  Armenia. The best policy for Yerevan is neutrality. In this context,  Mr Sargsyan believes the Armenian leadership is pursuing the right  policy. He points out that in developing its further foreign policy  Yerevan has to admit the fact that the world will never any more be  what it had been before the Ukraine crisis regardless of the results  of the war and of whether nuclear weapons will or will not be used.  

"The developed nations' unanimity on the inadmissibility of invading  another country or annexing its territories is an important  consequence of the war in Ukraine for us. Evidence thereof is the  international coalition's policy and sanctions against Russia. I  think it lays a fundamentally new basis for international relations:  any country that would violate another's sovereignty will face a  similar approach. So it will have similar consequences for the states  that are potentially or actually hostile to Armenia," Mr Sargsyan  said.