Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
December 1, 2006 Friday
UKRAINE IS ADVANCING MILITARY COOPERATION WITH BELARUS AND ARMENIA
Belarusian and Ukrainian defense Ministers Leonid Maltsev and Anatoly
Gritsenko signed an accord "On establishment of information sharing
systems" and the plan of bilateral cooperation between national
defense ministries in 2007.
Maltsev and Gritsenko decided to prepare for the signing in 2007, the
agreement between the defense ministries on cooperation to ensure air
traffic safety.
Eight joint functions within the framework of bilateral military
cooperation between Belarus and Armenia are planned for 2007 (four on
the territory of each country). Gritsenko and Armenian Defense
Minister Serzh Sargsjan signed the 2007 military cooperation plan on
November 23. Officers of the Armenian army will be observers at Sea
Breeze’2007 exercise in Ukraine.
Source: Voenno-Promyshlenny Kuryer, No 46, November 29 – December 5,
2006, p. 3
Translated by A. Ignatkin