RF, ARMENIA TO SIGN AGREEMENT ON MIL-TECHNICAL COOPERATION

ITAR-TASS News Agency
August 3, 2006 Thursday

By Sergei Ostanin, Roman Cherepanov

Prospects for cooperation between Russia and Armenia in the
defence sphere are being discussed at a meeting of the Bilateral
Intergovernmental Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation on
Thursday.

The meeting is held within the framework of the international
exhibition of Land Troops military products "MVSV-2005" at the
All-Russia Exhibition Centre in Moscow.

"This is the third meeting of the intergovernmental commission
of the two countries," deputy director of the Federal Service
on Military and Technical Cooperation Vladimir Paleshchuk told
journalists. "The two-day meeting will result in the signing on Friday
of a Russian-Armenian agreement on military and technical cooperation."