DISLOCATION OF PART OF ARMAMENT FROM RUSSIAN MILITARY BASES IN
GEORGIA TO ARMENIA CONSTITUTES NO THREAT TO NEIGHBORING STATES:
RF PERMANENT REP.
YEREVAN, JUNE 4. ARMINFO. Dislocation of part of the armament from
the closing Russian military bases in Georgia to Armenia constitutes
no threat to the neighboring states. Alexey Borodavkin, Permanent
Representative of the Russian Federation made this statement at a
siting of OSCE Permanent Council on June 2, the web-site of the RF
Foreign Ministry reports. He said the armament and ammunition to be
dislocated in Armenia would not exceed the Conventional Armed Forces
in Europe treaty quotas and would be under constant supervision of
the Russian party.
He said that May 30 2005 the foreign ministers of RF and Georgia signed
the text of a joint statement regarding the terms and conditions and
basic parameters of withdrawal of Russian military bases and other
military facilities of the Group of Russian Troops in the Transcaucasus
from the Georgian territory. The withdrawal of the military equipment
will start already in 2005 and at least 40 units of armored vehicles
will be dislocated. The process of disbandment and withdrawal of the
military base from Akhalkalaki will continue til October 1 2007. The
military base in Batumi as well as the Department of the GRTT will
be finally withdrawn within 2008.