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ARMENIA, RUSSIA DISCUSS CLOSER DEFENSE INDUSTRY TIES
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
YEREVAN
Armenia and Russia plan to significantly boost cooperation between
their defense industries within the framework of a Russian-led military
alliance of seven ex-Soviet states, top security officials from the
two countries said after talks in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Nikolay Bordyuzha, the secretary general of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization, said the alliance has already launched a "pilot
project" aimed at integrating Armenian defense enterprises into
Russia's military-industrial complex.
"Military-industrial cooperation with Armenia is one of the priority
areas of CSTO activities," the Regnum news agency quoted Bordyuzha
as telling journalists. He said "practical steps" already taken in
that direction will bear fruit soon.
"We will soon be monitoring the realization of agreements that were
reached today," said Konstantin Biryulin, the deputy head of Russia's
Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation with foreign states.
According to Artur Baghdasarian, the secretary of Armenia's National
Security Council, the agreements envisage, among other things, the
establishment of Russian-Armenian defense joint ventures. He did
not elaborate.
The three men spoke at a joint news conference after two days of
negotiations that also involved Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian.
Bordyuzha and Biryulin visited four Armenian plants manufacturing
weapons and other military equipment on Monday.
Biryulin and other officials from his agency already visited Armenia
last December for a session of a Russian-Armenian inter-governmental
commission on bilateral military-technical cooperation. Under an
agreement signed during the meeting, Russia and Armenia will work
together in exporting arms and ammunition to third countries.
The military alliance with Russia and, in particular, the presence of
Russian troops on Armenian soil has been a key element of Armenia's
national security doctrine since independence. Armenia has been
entitled to receiving Russian weapons at cut-down prices or even free
of charge also because of its membership in the CSTO.
"In my opinion, the possibility of purchasing Russian weapons is
the main privilege given to CSTO members states within the framework
of military-industrial cooperation," Ohanian told the Interfax news
agency on Tuesday. "I will not hide the fact that we pin big hopes
on this sphere of activity."
From: A. Papazian
asbarez
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
YEREVAN
Armenia and Russia plan to significantly boost cooperation between
their defense industries within the framework of a Russian-led military
alliance of seven ex-Soviet states, top security officials from the
two countries said after talks in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Nikolay Bordyuzha, the secretary general of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization, said the alliance has already launched a "pilot
project" aimed at integrating Armenian defense enterprises into
Russia's military-industrial complex.
"Military-industrial cooperation with Armenia is one of the priority
areas of CSTO activities," the Regnum news agency quoted Bordyuzha
as telling journalists. He said "practical steps" already taken in
that direction will bear fruit soon.
"We will soon be monitoring the realization of agreements that were
reached today," said Konstantin Biryulin, the deputy head of Russia's
Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation with foreign states.
According to Artur Baghdasarian, the secretary of Armenia's National
Security Council, the agreements envisage, among other things, the
establishment of Russian-Armenian defense joint ventures. He did
not elaborate.
The three men spoke at a joint news conference after two days of
negotiations that also involved Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian.
Bordyuzha and Biryulin visited four Armenian plants manufacturing
weapons and other military equipment on Monday.
Biryulin and other officials from his agency already visited Armenia
last December for a session of a Russian-Armenian inter-governmental
commission on bilateral military-technical cooperation. Under an
agreement signed during the meeting, Russia and Armenia will work
together in exporting arms and ammunition to third countries.
The military alliance with Russia and, in particular, the presence of
Russian troops on Armenian soil has been a key element of Armenia's
national security doctrine since independence. Armenia has been
entitled to receiving Russian weapons at cut-down prices or even free
of charge also because of its membership in the CSTO.
"In my opinion, the possibility of purchasing Russian weapons is
the main privilege given to CSTO members states within the framework
of military-industrial cooperation," Ohanian told the Interfax news
agency on Tuesday. "I will not hide the fact that we pin big hopes
on this sphere of activity."
From: A. Papazian