ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
September 28, 2006 Thursday

Armenian govt to allocate more land plots for Russian jet fighters

Tigran Liloyan

YEREVAN, September 28

The Armenian government will allocate additional land plots for the
deployment and servicing of MiG-29 jet fighters which are part of the
Russian military base in Armenia.

A building or a land plot for a nursery school, intended for the
children of Russian servicemen will also be allocated, according to
the agreement signed on Thursday by the intergovernmental commission
on the handover of land plots and immovable property for the
deployment and functioning of the Russian military base

The parties have coordinated the settlement procedure and the payment
of the expenses related to the presence of the base in Armenia.

Head of the Armenian part of the commission, First Deputy Defense
Minister, army chief of staff Col Gen Mikhail Arutyunyan said the
commission’s work is aimed toward the settlement of issues within the
framework of bilateral military cooperation, such as the welfare and
housing conditions of the Russian servicemen. A squadron of MiGs is
deployed at the airfield in Yerevan, who cover the republic’s air
space together with air defense units. It is for these planes that
land plots will be allocated, Arutyunyan.

According to Igor Gromyko, an adviser with the Russian Embassy in
Armenia, who co-chairs the commission for Russia, “the session has
passed in the spirit of traditional mutual understanding between two
allies.”