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IN TERMS OF CERTAIN TYPES OF WEAPONS ARMENIA AHEAD OF ALL ITS REGIONAL NEIGHBORS, DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS
YEREVAN, September 18. / ARKA /. In terms of some types of weapons
Armenia is ahead of all its regional neighbors, defense minister
Seyran Ohanyan said today.
As an example, he cited Russia-manufactured S-300 air-defense systems
saying no country in the region can boast of that number of the
system as Armenia. Speaking at a meeting with students of the Yerevan
State University the minister downplayed earlier reports that Russia
delivered $1 billion worth battle tanks and other military hardware
to Azerbaijan. According to reports in the Russian media, Azerbaijani
military received over 90 T-90C tanks, around 100 armored personnel
carriers and dozens of multiple-rocket systems and artillery cannons.
According to Ohanyan, the Armenian side had been notified of the
delivery 2-3 months prior to it.
"Each country itself decides the way of its military- technical
cooperation with other countries and Armenia has no right to interfere
or try to hinder weapon sales, however, we send messages via some
organizations that when it comes to Azerbaijan it is unacceptable,
especially that Azerbaijan has been turning its defensive capabilities
into offensive ones,' he said.
He stressed that delivery of weapons to regional countries and
cooperation with them brings them to a certain degree of control.
"The closer military cooperation between other countries and
Azerbaijan, the better our messages reach destination and the
democratic norms of control that apply to us will spread to our
enemies as well," the minister said.
Earlier this year Armenian prime minister Tigran Sarkisian said the
country saw a dramatic increase in its arms acquisitions in the last
few years, which have offset Azerbaijan's ongoing military build-up.
"In the last three years we have acquired as much weaponry as we did
in the previous 20 years," Tigran Sarkisian said during a visit to
Nagorno-Karabakh. -0-
19:36 18.09.2013
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YEREVAN, September 18. / ARKA /. In terms of some types of weapons
Armenia is ahead of all its regional neighbors, defense minister
Seyran Ohanyan said today.
As an example, he cited Russia-manufactured S-300 air-defense systems
saying no country in the region can boast of that number of the
system as Armenia. Speaking at a meeting with students of the Yerevan
State University the minister downplayed earlier reports that Russia
delivered $1 billion worth battle tanks and other military hardware
to Azerbaijan. According to reports in the Russian media, Azerbaijani
military received over 90 T-90C tanks, around 100 armored personnel
carriers and dozens of multiple-rocket systems and artillery cannons.
According to Ohanyan, the Armenian side had been notified of the
delivery 2-3 months prior to it.
"Each country itself decides the way of its military- technical
cooperation with other countries and Armenia has no right to interfere
or try to hinder weapon sales, however, we send messages via some
organizations that when it comes to Azerbaijan it is unacceptable,
especially that Azerbaijan has been turning its defensive capabilities
into offensive ones,' he said.
He stressed that delivery of weapons to regional countries and
cooperation with them brings them to a certain degree of control.
"The closer military cooperation between other countries and
Azerbaijan, the better our messages reach destination and the
democratic norms of control that apply to us will spread to our
enemies as well," the minister said.
Earlier this year Armenian prime minister Tigran Sarkisian said the
country saw a dramatic increase in its arms acquisitions in the last
few years, which have offset Azerbaijan's ongoing military build-up.
"In the last three years we have acquired as much weaponry as we did
in the previous 20 years," Tigran Sarkisian said during a visit to
Nagorno-Karabakh. -0-
19:36 18.09.2013
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/in_terms_of_certain_types_of_weapons_armenia_ahead _of_all_its_regional_neighbors_defense_minister_sa/