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    RUSSIA AND ARMENIA SIGN NEW DEFENSE AGREEMENT

    Transitions Online, Czech Rep.

    June 27 2013

    Russia and Armenia have concluded an agreement which will ensure
    shipments of Russian military equipment to the Armenian army,
    Panorama.am reports.

    Nikolai Patrushev Military officials from the two countries signed
    the deal for "developing military-technical cooperation" on 25 June,
    during the visit of a Russian military delegation headed by Nikolai
    Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of Russia.

    Neither Patrushev nor his Armenian counterpart, Artur Baghdasarian,
    gave details about the agreement. However, Baghdasarian did say
    the agreement, which took five years to conclude, gave Armenia
    "qualitatively different opportunities for doing business with Russia."

    The deal came only days after Russia concluded a military deal
    worth almost $1 billion with Armenia's longtime enemy and neighbor,
    Azerbaijan, The Moscow Times writes.

    The two nations have been at odds since both became independent in the
    early 1990s over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory, an Armenian
    enclave within Azerbaijan whose independence from Azerbaijan is not
    recognized by any country.

    Both countries devote huge resources to their armed forces. In
    November 2011, Armenian officials announced that a seventh of the
    nation's budget for 2012 would go into military spending in order
    to keep up with its neighbor, which reportedly spends four to five
    times the same amount for its military.

    Panorama.am also reports that Patrushev assured officials in Yerevan
    that Russian troops based in Armenia will ensure the country's
    security. "We have strategic relations with Armenia," Patrushev said,
    adding that Moscow plans to modernize its one base there.

    http://www.tol.org/client/article/23839-kosovo-recognized-by-100-nations-hungary-spared-rights-monitoring.html

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