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.