Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
November 22, 2004, Monday

IT IS NOT PLANNED TO RAISE THE STRENGTH OF THE 102ND RUSSIAN MILITARY
BASE IN ARMENIA

Colonel Nikolai Baranov, chief of the mobile press center of the
Russian armed forces said this last Friday. Baranov also denied an
intention to move to Armenia the Russian military base stationed in
the Akhalkalakhi district of Georgia. He only mentioned that the arms
of the 102nd Military Base of Russia would be gradually upgraded in the
framework of the general rearmament in the Russian army. “The condition
of arms and military equipment is now satisfactory in the base and
renovations of the small arms might be held alone,” Baranov said.