BELARUS, ARMENIA DISCUSS DEFENCE COOPERATION

Belapan news agency
21 May 07

Minsk, 21 May: Belarusian Defence Minister Col-Gen Leanid Maltsaw met
Armenian Deputy Defence Minister Lt-Gen Yuriy Khachaturov in Minsk
on 21 May. A delegation led by Khachaturov arrived in Minsk to visit
the Milex-2007 arms and military equipment exhibition, which opens
on 22 May.

Belapan learnt at the Defence Ministry that Maltsaw and Khachaturov
exchanged opinions on the state and development prospects for bilateral
military cooperation.

[Passage omitted: Kazakh Defence Minister Daniyal Akhmetov to arrive
in Minsk on 21 May.]