SECURITY PACT CHIEF PRAISES RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN MILITARY TEAMWORK AFTER JOINT DRILL

RTR Russia TV, Moscow
14 Sep 05

[Presenter] A joint Russian-Armenian military exercise to rehearse
defensive combat skills as part of a combined force has passed in
Armenia [it reportedly began on 10 September and ended on the 13th].

The country’s president, Robert Kocharyan, and the secretary-general
of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Nikolay Bordyuzha,
watched the exercise. This is how Bordyuzha commented on the results
of the drill.

[Bordyuzha] I reckon that this exercise went off successfully. What
matters is not the effect of explosions and gunfire that we see in
the field, but the rehearsal of coordination between units of the
Armenian and Russian armed forces.

[Presenter] The 10th joint drill involved over 1,000 service personnel
and about 300 items of military materiel, including four fighter jets
and six helicopters.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress