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  • Arms Supplies To Yerevan Adjusted To Armenia's Expectations - Russia

    ARMS SUPPLIES TO YEREVAN ADJUSTED TO ARMENIA'S EXPECTATIONS - RUSSIAN LAWMAKER

    Interfax, Russia
    March 29 2015

    YEREVAN. March 29

    An imbalance in Russian arms supplies to Armenia and to Azerbaijan
    has been amended to meet Armenia's expectations, said Leonid Slutsky,
    chairman of the Russian State Duma's Committee for CIS Affairs,
    Eurasian Integration and Contacts with Compatriots.

    "An imbalance has formed in Russia's military-technical cooperation
    with Armenia on the one hand and Azerbaijan on the other due to
    an inexact assessment of the situation in the region. Armenia was
    supplied with the same, but older systems compared to those exported
    to Azerbaijan. This imbalance has been amended," Slutsky said at a
    press conference after a meeting of the Russian and Armenian profile
    committees in Yerevan.

    Unlike Azerbaijan which buys Russian weapons at their commercial price,
    Armenia gets weaponry under different arrangements, he said.

    "Even under these terms Armenia receives Russian loans. The terms and
    balance of arms supplies meet the upper limit of Armenia's expectations
    today," the Russian lawmaker said.

    "Both Armenia and Azerbaijan are Russia's partners. Partnership with
    both must be continued in order not to provoke a rise in antagonisms
    or outbreaks of tensions between them. Instead, further efforts should
    be made to settle the [Nagorno-Karabakh] conflict" he said.

    "Russia remains a peacemaker in the Karabakh conflict. All of us
    must concentrate on further moves to assist the negotiators. But if
    the negotiators' efforts are not effective enough, the presidents,
    I am sure, will manage to forge mechanism within the coming months
    and take crucial steps on this uneasy path. Opportunities exist for
    taking serious political steps this year. The presidents are to have
    their say. We, on our part, must not interfere," Slutsky said.

    Chairman of the Armenian parliamentary commission for external
    relations Artak Zakarian said in turn that, "Yerevan is concerned
    about the current arms deliveries to Azerbaijan irrespective of who
    is arming that country."

    He also made mention of a high level of Armenian-Russian
    military-technical cooperation.

    "We buy Russian weapons, too, but the difference is in that we are
    using weapons for defense, and Azerbaijan for offensive purposes,
    which is a threat to the region," Zakarian said.

    "We are worried by the fact that Russia, guided by various goals,
    sells weapons to Azerbaijan. It's not the quality of weapons that
    is of importance here. Armenian servicemen deployed on the Armenian
    border are aware that the enemy wants to destroy them using Russian
    weapons. It is a problem that must be solved," Sargsian said at an
    international media forum in Yerevan on March 18.

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