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ITAR-TASS, Russia
January 18, 2013 Friday 04:12 PM GMT+4
Armenian defence ministry hails military ties with Russia
YEREVAN January 18
- The Armenian defence minister hailed on Friday the level of
military-technical cooperation with Russia, stressing that it had been
upgraded to the interstate level.
"Our military and military-technical cooperation with Russia is at a
high level," the minister stated summing up the last year cooperation
results. Russian-Armenian military-technical cooperation has been
upgraded from the intergovernmental to the interstate level, he
stressed. Defence Minister Seiran Oganyan reminded the audience that
an intergovernmental agreement on military-technical cooperation was
signed by the two countries back in February 2003.
According to him, "a draft agreement on the development of
military-technical cooperation, this time already an interstate
agreement, has been worked out and is at the final stage of
consideration by the Russian side". The minister marked that the new
document envisages the possibility for signing contracts in the
military-technical sphere between organizations and enterprises of the
two countries, and besides on preferential terms.
Oganyan called work on that agreement "a major achievement". According
to him, "military-technical cooperation with Russia sees a new stage
of development," and apart from that Armenia has "a vast field for
updating military-technical cooperation also with other CSTO member
countries".
Last year Moscow and Yerevan agreed to set up joint defence
enterprises in Armenia, the minister said. "This will give us a
possibility to develop the defence industry," Oganyan believes.
Focusing on the activity of a Russian military base in Armenia, the
minister said in August 2010 he and the Russian counterpart signed
within the framework of a Russian president's visit "an agreement in
which once again stated that during its long-term stationing in
Armenia the military base will be responsible equally with the
Armenian Armed Forces for ensuring security of the republic".
"At the present moment this base fulfils its role also with taking
into consideration the aims of the neighboring on Armenia states and
their intentions towards Armenia," the defence minister stressed. "Of
course, certain problems exist in the activity of the Russian military
base," he admitted.
"We would like that the resources of the base that have
operational-strategic role be deployed in Armenia," Oganyan reported.
According to him, necessary steps are being made in that direction
within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
When asked whether Armenia is ready to have a Russian radar station on
its territory after Moscow's refusal to use the Gabala Radar Station,
the minister said "we would not object".
January 18, 2013 Friday 04:12 PM GMT+4
Armenian defence ministry hails military ties with Russia
YEREVAN January 18
- The Armenian defence minister hailed on Friday the level of
military-technical cooperation with Russia, stressing that it had been
upgraded to the interstate level.
"Our military and military-technical cooperation with Russia is at a
high level," the minister stated summing up the last year cooperation
results. Russian-Armenian military-technical cooperation has been
upgraded from the intergovernmental to the interstate level, he
stressed. Defence Minister Seiran Oganyan reminded the audience that
an intergovernmental agreement on military-technical cooperation was
signed by the two countries back in February 2003.
According to him, "a draft agreement on the development of
military-technical cooperation, this time already an interstate
agreement, has been worked out and is at the final stage of
consideration by the Russian side". The minister marked that the new
document envisages the possibility for signing contracts in the
military-technical sphere between organizations and enterprises of the
two countries, and besides on preferential terms.
Oganyan called work on that agreement "a major achievement". According
to him, "military-technical cooperation with Russia sees a new stage
of development," and apart from that Armenia has "a vast field for
updating military-technical cooperation also with other CSTO member
countries".
Last year Moscow and Yerevan agreed to set up joint defence
enterprises in Armenia, the minister said. "This will give us a
possibility to develop the defence industry," Oganyan believes.
Focusing on the activity of a Russian military base in Armenia, the
minister said in August 2010 he and the Russian counterpart signed
within the framework of a Russian president's visit "an agreement in
which once again stated that during its long-term stationing in
Armenia the military base will be responsible equally with the
Armenian Armed Forces for ensuring security of the republic".
"At the present moment this base fulfils its role also with taking
into consideration the aims of the neighboring on Armenia states and
their intentions towards Armenia," the defence minister stressed. "Of
course, certain problems exist in the activity of the Russian military
base," he admitted.
"We would like that the resources of the base that have
operational-strategic role be deployed in Armenia," Oganyan reported.
According to him, necessary steps are being made in that direction
within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
When asked whether Armenia is ready to have a Russian radar station on
its territory after Moscow's refusal to use the Gabala Radar Station,
the minister said "we would not object".