Thursday, April 11 2024 15:45

ArmInfo.Official Tbilisi equalizes relations with its neighbors and raises the level of cooperation with Armenia to a  strategic one.

Within the framework of the "Armenian-Georgian Strategic Cooperation"  conference held today, Orbeli Center expert (forum organizer),  political scientist, specialist in Armenian-Georgian relations Johnny  Melikyan expressed this opinion.  He noted that despite the close  friendly relations between the countries during all the years of  independence, today the relations between the countries are entering  a new qualitative level and assume a new agenda.

The expert explained this new qualitative level with the new  geostrategic situation in the region that emerged after the second  Karabakh war, the reshuffle of forces and the need to form a new  geopolitical balance.  According to the political scientist, today's  highly militarized Azerbaijan poses a threat to the entire region,  including Georgia, which is striving to balance the level of its  strategic partnership both with Azerbaijan, with which a number of  strategic documents were signed back in 2011, and with Armenia, the  process of increasing the level of partnership with which became  significantly more active.

"If previously not all messages of the Armenian side were perceived  in Georgia with proactivity, today the leadership of both countries  are considering the mutual desire to increase the level of  cooperation with all seriousness," Melikyan noted. In this vein, the  expert noted that Tbilisi has always strived for a mediation mission  to improve relations between Baku and Yerevan, but for the successful  implementation of this mission, Georgia needs to have balanced, equal  relations with both neighbors.

In this context, the expert also considers the intensification of the  process of delimiting the border between Armenia and Georgia.  According to his personal conviction, this process between two  friendly countries can serve as a model for the delimitation and  demarcation of borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan, especially  since Georgia, which has strategic relations with Azerbaijan, has not  yet completed this process.  "Certain approaches and mechanisms of  this process between Armenia and Georgia can become an example for  Azerbaijan, which will be forced to apply the same approaches in  working with both Armenia and Azerbaijan," Melikyan emphasized.