Interfax, Russia
March 12 2009
Document alleging Russia’s weapons supplies to Armenia fake – Lavrov
BAKU March 12
A document circulated by the media as if to confirm that Russia had
sold weapons to Armenia is a forgery, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov said.
"As regards the fuss that has been stirred around this document, which
has been circulated in both Azeri and Russian media outlets, it is a
fake. It actually does not meet any criteria set for such kind of
documents," Lavrov said at a press conference in Baku on Thursday.
The document contains such grammar mistakes that it puzzles one as to
where it was written, Lavrov said.
"Russia maintains military-technological cooperation with many
countries without violating any international obligations, without
violating its own laws, and without allowing any destabilizing
supplies to any region. It is on these very principles that we
cooperate in the military-technological sphere," Lavrov said.