Russia-Armenia relations play key role for Armenia security
By Tigran Liloyan
ITAR-TASS News Agency
December 17, 2004 Friday
YEREVAN, December 18 — Armenian-Russian relations are strategic
and play a key role for Armenian security, Armenian Defence Minister
Serzh Sarkisyan said in his report “South Caucasus: issues of regional
security” during the debates organised by the Center of public dialogue
and development on Friday.
“Armenian-Russian military and technical cooperation meets Armenian
interests and is a reliable pledge of military security in the region,”
the minister emphasised. According to him, “the Russian military base
deployed in the republic demonstrates this.”
He noted that “the Armenian-Russian strategic union plays an
inestimable role in terms of reliable guarantees of security.”
Armenia is guided by this principle in its security policy in the
current military and political situation in the region.
“Armenian-Russian military cooperation provides for the needs of
the Armenian Armed Forces in armaments and staff, in military and
military-technical spheres, ensures Armenian military security and
keeping the balance of forces in the region,” the minister pointed out.