“ENEMY” WAS DEFEATED

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| 16:32:28 | 13-09-2005 | Politics |

There are no obstacles on the way of promotion of the Armenian-Russian
military cooperation,” Secretary of the National Security Council at
the Armenian President, Armenian Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan stated
today when commenting on the Armenian-Russian joint exercise held on
the ground after marshal Baghramyan in Armavir region of Armenia.

1307 servicemen took part in the exercise.

Today the federal forces were eliminating the “enemy” and preventing
terrorist acts. The operations were watched by Armenian Defense
Minister Serge Sargsyan, CSTO Sec. Gen. Nikolay Bordyuzha and Commander
of Russian troops in Transcaucasus Andrey Popov.

“Not the effect of exploding bombs, but efficient cooperation of the
Armed Forces of the two countries is the thing that is important,”
he said. “We observed exercises held at a high level,” Bordyuzha
remarked. At that in his words, there is always space for expansion
of joint activities. “It might be as well for the special forces to
take part in the next exercise to work out counter-terror tasks,”
he summed up,

When commenting on the recent statement by Ilham Aliyev regarding the
Azerbaijani military budget Serge Sargsyan said, “The Azeri President
wished to demonstrate that they have strong army. But it does not
mean that our army is weak. The efficiency of our army is very high”.