ARMENIA ALLOWED TO SUPPLY PRODUCTS AND EQUIPMENT TO NATO AND US TROOPS
PanARMENIAN.Net
29.01.2010 20:12 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia was allowed to supply products and equipment
to NATO and US troops stationed in Afghanistan. The Pentagon
allowed Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan to provide NATO
and U.S. troops that are stationed in Afghanistan with products,
equipment and services.
Consequently, according to the U.S. news agency CA-NEWS, the
above-mentioned countries are eligible to participate in tender
announced by the Pentagon.
According to the Law "On Trade Agreement", adopted in 1999, and
Memorandum dated July 9th, 2009, the Pentagon was obliged to buy only
American products.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called "the (North)
Atlantic Alliance", is an intergovernmental military alliance based
on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949. The
NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization
constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states
agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
NATO has added new members seven times since first forming in 1949 (the
last 2 in 2009). NATO comprises 28 members: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
New membership in the alliance has been largely from Eastern Europe and
the Balkans, including former members of the Warsaw Pact. At the 2008
summit in Bucharest, three countries were promised future invitations:
the Republic of Macedonia, Georgia and Ukraine.
Other potential candidate countries include Montenegro and Bosnia and
Herzegovina, which joined the Adriatic Charter of potential members
in 2008.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
