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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
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