YEREVAN, December 20. /ARKA/. Armenia is not conducting negotiations over deployment of servicemen from third countries, Anna Naghdalyan, press secretary of the Armenian foreign ministry, said Thursday at a briefing while commenting on a statement of Sergey Lavrov, Russian foreign minister.   

In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Lavrov, answering a question about American bio laboratories, said that Moscow and Yerevan were preparing a document which should guarantee the absence of foreign servicemen in bio laboratories. 

Armenian Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said yesterday that the matter had been discussed with the previous, not present government.

Naghdalyan is quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying that these laboratories are Armenian, they belong to Armenia and controlled by the country.  

“Only Armenian experts work at these laboratories,” she said adding that the laboratories are civil in their purpose, and therefore there is no problem of military presence here. -0—