ROSOBORONEXPORT REJECTS RUSSIA-AZERBAIJAN ARMS DEAL

Panorama
July 29 2010
Armenia

Rosoboronexport rejected to confirm Vedomosti reports about Russia’s
plans to supply two divisions of S-300 Anti-missile complexes Favorit
to Azerbaijan.

“Russia and Azerbaijan have not signed such a deal,” the spokesman
for general director of Rosoboronexport, Vyacheslav Davidenko told
RIA Novosti.

Panorama.am recalls that Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport
signed a $300-million agreement with the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry
on the supply of S-300 air defense systems to Azerbaijan, according
to Vedomosti reports.

From: A. Papazian