Armenian-Russian military and technical cooperation enters new level, Patrushev says
25.06.2013,
14:55
Military and technical cooperation between Russia and Armenia steps up to a new level, Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said Tuesday.

YEREVAN, June 25./ARKA/. Military and technical cooperation between Russia and Armenia steps up to a new level, Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said Tuesday.
“Russia and Armenia have strategic relations, and this is the highest level of partnership,” Patrushev said as he signed a number of bilateral documents.
“We have a task to ensure an active and efficient cooperation of those divisions which are set to maintain security. For this, we need an appropriate normative and legal base. And we are actually busy with that. I think all these measures just confirm our willingness to make our cooperation more efficient,” Novosti-Armenia quoted him as saying.
Patrushev has also noted the Armenian and Russian security divisions have a planned agenda which ends in 2013.
“We have already instructed the responsible units to outline the next planned agenda for 2014-2015 and include there all mutually interesting issues,” he said.
On his side, Artur Baghdasaryan, Armenian National Security Council Secretary, thanked his Russian counterpart for the support and understanding.
“We have developed a very interesting course for cooperation and actually showed some definite results. We have signed five different agreements today, and I think it gives us stronger legal base for further cooperation,” he said.
During his visit to Armenia, Patrushev signed a number of bilateral documents. Particularly, Defense Minister of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan and Director of Military and Technical Cooperation Federal Service Aleksandr Fomin signed Agreement on military and technical cooperation.
Rosgranitsa (the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border Facilities of the Russian Federation) and Armenian National Security Council have reached Agreement on collaboration and information exchange related to improving infrastructure of the state borders and check points.
The secretaries of security councils of the both countries signed a protocol. The agreements related to space and seismology have been also reached. —0-
“Russia and Armenia have strategic relations, and this is the highest level of partnership,” Patrushev said as he signed a number of bilateral documents.
“We have a task to ensure an active and efficient cooperation of those divisions which are set to maintain security. For this, we need an appropriate normative and legal base. And we are actually busy with that. I think all these measures just confirm our willingness to make our cooperation more efficient,” Novosti-Armenia quoted him as saying.
Patrushev has also noted the Armenian and Russian security divisions have a planned agenda which ends in 2013.
“We have already instructed the responsible units to outline the next planned agenda for 2014-2015 and include there all mutually interesting issues,” he said.
On his side, Artur Baghdasaryan, Armenian National Security Council Secretary, thanked his Russian counterpart for the support and understanding.
“We have developed a very interesting course for cooperation and actually showed some definite results. We have signed five different agreements today, and I think it gives us stronger legal base for further cooperation,” he said.
During his visit to Armenia, Patrushev signed a number of bilateral documents. Particularly, Defense Minister of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan and Director of Military and Technical Cooperation Federal Service Aleksandr Fomin signed Agreement on military and technical cooperation.
Rosgranitsa (the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border Facilities of the Russian Federation) and Armenian National Security Council have reached Agreement on collaboration and information exchange related to improving infrastructure of the state borders and check points.
The secretaries of security councils of the both countries signed a protocol. The agreements related to space and seismology have been also reached. —0-