RUSSIA DOESN’T PLAN TO HOST ARMENIAN MILITARY BASES – CSTO

Interfax
Sept 2 2009
Russia

Moscow and Yerevan are not conducting talks on the deployment of
Armenian military bases in Russian territory under the agreement
to form the Collective Operational Reaction Force (CORF), Vitaly
Strugovets, spokesman for the secretariat of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization, has said.

"No proposals of this kind have arrived from Russia or Armenia, and
no talks on this issue are underway now," Strugovets told Interfax-AVN
on Tuesday.

Strugovets was commenting on media reports claiming that Armenia could
deploy military bases in the Krasnodar Territory or in Dagestan,
to be manned by units attached to the CSTO’s CORF, to ensure the
security of the transport and communication infrastructure, used to
channel supplies to Armenia.

"The CORF is not intended to protect transport and communication
infrastructure, so speculation on its possible use for this purpose
is baseless," Strugovets said.