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    No new agreements have to be inked for taking Russian military hardware from Georgia to Armenia - Armenian Defense Ministry

    YEREVAN
    June 2, 2005
    RIA Novosti
    Gamlet Matevosyan

    The moving of Russian military equipment from Georgia to Armenia will
    not necessitate the conclusion of new agreements, press secretary
    Colonel Seiran Shakhsuvarian of the Armenian defense minister told
    RIA Novosti on Thursday.

    The lifting to Armenia of part of equipment from the Russian military
    bases stationed in Georgia is regulated by the Armenian-Russian
    agreement on military cooperation and the disposition of the Russian
    military bases in Armenia, the quotas obligations provided for in
    the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, he said.

    "For this reason there's no need to conclude a new document or a new
    agreement between the sides for bringing Russian military equipment
    to Armenia," Shakhsuvarian said.

    On Tuesday a trainload of military equipment and ammunition had set
    off from the Batumi base to the Armenian town of Gyumri, he recalled.

    Simultaneously, Shakhsuvarian noted that relocation of Russian
    servicemen from Georgia to Armenia has not yet been spoken of.

    Back in 1995, in keeping with the Armenian-Russian interstate
    agreement, the Russian 102nd military base was deployed near Gyumri and
    is now doing combat duty within the framework of the united air-defense
    system of countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

    The base is subordinated to the Transcaucasian group of troops of the
    Russian North Caucasian military district. The base has an aircraft
    missile system S-300 and MiG-29 fighters, a 5,000-strong personnel.

    The possibility of relocating Russian military bases from Georgia
    to Armenia has worried Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. It believes
    that the relocation will not be conducive to settling the drawn-out
    Armenian-Azeri conflict around Nagorny Karabakh, an Armenian enclave
    in Azerbaijan.
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