WPS Agency, Russia
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
March 13, 2009 Friday
RUSSIA AND ARMENIA WILL DRAW UNITED REGIONAL ANTIAIRCRAFT DEFENSE
SYSTEM AGREEMENT FOR SIGNING LATER THIS YEAR
Russian AF Second-in-Command, Lieutenant General Vadim Volkovitsky,
said after a meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Antiaircraft
Defense of the CIS Council of Defense Ministers that Russia and
Armenia would draw an agreement on the organization of a regional
antiaircraft defense system and hopefully sign it in 2009.
"The Coordinating Committee instructed the Russian Federation and the
Republic of Armenia to draw and sign an agreement on the united
regional antiaircraft defense system in 2009," he said.
This February, CIS countries began development of three integrated
regional antiaircraft defense systems – East European, Caucasus,
Central Asian. The agreement on the Russian-Belarussian united
regional antiaircraft defense system was signed.
Agreements on united antiaircraft defense systems in other regions
will be signed before long. According to the Russian AF Command, 14
years of the CIS United Antiaircraft Defense System "all but revived
Armenia’s antiaircraft defense capacity."
Source: Voyenno-Promyshlenny Kurier, No 9, March 11 – 17, 2009, p. 3
Translated by Aleksei Ignatkin