ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES PROTOCOLS SIGNED BETWEEN CST STATES
Noyan Tapan
Dec 3, 2008
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The Republic of Armenia National
Assembly on December 3 ratified two out of the documents signed on
October 6, 2007 in Dushanbe between the Collective Security Treaty
participant states, on the order of exercising control over target use
of production of military significance suppled within the framework of
the May 15, 1992 agreement on the main military-technical cooperation
principles between CSTO countries and the protocol on the mechanism
of providing military-technical assistance if a threat or action of
aggression emerges.
The same day the parliament also discussed another five agreements and
protocols signed between CSTO country-members in Dushanbe. According to
Armen Rustamian, the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign
Relations, ARFD faction member, the goal of the signed documents
package is to deepen and regulate cooperation between organization’s
member-countries, which the committee considers as a component of
Armenia’s national security.