FoNet news agency, Serbia
29 Dec 2006

Russia allows Serbian company to export weapons to Armenia

Belgrade, 29 December: Russian Ambassador Aleksandar Alekseyev today
conveyed the Russian side’s positive response to Serbian President
Boris Tadic regarding the president’s initiative that the problem of
Zastava Weapons factory products’ export to Armenia be solved.

President Tadic and Ambassador Alekseyev agreed that the quantity and
the kind of exported weapons should not influence the balance of
power in the Caspian region.

Tadic and Alekseyev stated that relations between Serbia and Russia
were progressing and said they were hopeful that economic issues,
initiated by [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin and Tadic at a
meeting in Moscow, were starting to realize, said a statement
released by the president’s press office.