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RUSSIA'S LEASE OF ARMENIAN AIR BASE EXTENDED TILL 2044
Novinite.com
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129977
July 6, 2011
Bulgaria
World | July 6, 2011, Wednesday An agreement between Russia and
Armenia has allowed the former to extend its lease of an Armenian
air base until 2044.
The agreement allowing Russia to field air force units at an Armenia
base until 2044 went into effect on Wednesday, the Interfax news
agency reported.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov signed the defense treaty in
a Moscow ceremony with his Armenian counterpart Edvard Nalbandyan.
The deal extends a 1992 lease allowing Russia to field MiG-29
interceptor jets, S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, and some 2 500 soldiers
and officers at airfield some 120 km north of the Armenian capital
Yerevan, DPA reported.
Approximately 2 000 Armenian soldiers and family members also live
on the base, which operates as part of an Russia-managed air defense
network covering most of the airspace of the former Soviet Union.
Under a similar agreement made in April 2010, Ukraine agreed to extend
Russia's lease of the Sevastopol naval base in the Black Sea for the
Russian Navy from 2017 until 2042, or even till 2049, if a second,
five-year extension clause kicks in.
Russia and Armenia already have an excellent defense relationship and
will sign new economic cooperation agreements in coming days, Armenian
Foreign Minister Nalbandyan is quoted as saying, according to Interfax.
Ties between Moscow and Yerevan have been close for more than two
decades since Armenia became a member of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO), a regional mutual defense treaty also
including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
Russia has traditionally supported Armenia in its long-standing
deadlocked conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh
province, which is technically in Azerbaijan but is controlled by
Armenian forces.
Armenia and Azerbaijan need to accept compromise to resolve the
conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said at the press conference
on Wednesday.
Novinite.com
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129977
July 6, 2011
Bulgaria
World | July 6, 2011, Wednesday An agreement between Russia and
Armenia has allowed the former to extend its lease of an Armenian
air base until 2044.
The agreement allowing Russia to field air force units at an Armenia
base until 2044 went into effect on Wednesday, the Interfax news
agency reported.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov signed the defense treaty in
a Moscow ceremony with his Armenian counterpart Edvard Nalbandyan.
The deal extends a 1992 lease allowing Russia to field MiG-29
interceptor jets, S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, and some 2 500 soldiers
and officers at airfield some 120 km north of the Armenian capital
Yerevan, DPA reported.
Approximately 2 000 Armenian soldiers and family members also live
on the base, which operates as part of an Russia-managed air defense
network covering most of the airspace of the former Soviet Union.
Under a similar agreement made in April 2010, Ukraine agreed to extend
Russia's lease of the Sevastopol naval base in the Black Sea for the
Russian Navy from 2017 until 2042, or even till 2049, if a second,
five-year extension clause kicks in.
Russia and Armenia already have an excellent defense relationship and
will sign new economic cooperation agreements in coming days, Armenian
Foreign Minister Nalbandyan is quoted as saying, according to Interfax.
Ties between Moscow and Yerevan have been close for more than two
decades since Armenia became a member of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO), a regional mutual defense treaty also
including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
Russia has traditionally supported Armenia in its long-standing
deadlocked conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh
province, which is technically in Azerbaijan but is controlled by
Armenian forces.
Armenia and Azerbaijan need to accept compromise to resolve the
conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said at the press conference
on Wednesday.