Armenia involved the illegal purchase of weapons
BayBak, Azerbaijan | 2051 days ago | Thursday, 11th October , 2007 , 17:04 [pm] | International
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. | The annual report on military-technical cooperation and international experts emphasized concealing military leadership of Armenia purchases in Slovakia 35 aircraft missiles ML X-25 and X-29 L.
Although the official Bratislava said that the supply of arms to Armenia in 2005, Yerevan categorically refused to provide information about the transaction. It should be noted |
Recently, was officially launched annual report on exports and imports of arms in the UN Register of Conventional Arms (United Nations Register of Conventional Arms), where Armenia is the country that were not declared or hidden in their report of the arms procurement for the Army.
According to the Bakililar.AZ, this APA reported to the Office of the Ministry of Defence.
This fact testifies to the rollback of UN principles of openness in the military sphere and is a direct threat to the region.
The annual report on military-technical cooperation and international experts emphasized concealing military leadership of Armenia purchases in Slovakia 35 aircraft missiles ML X-25 and X-29 L.
Although the official Bratislava said that the supply of arms to Armenia in 2005, Yerevan categorically refused to provide information about the transaction.
It should be noted that this is not the first case of military and technical cooperation between the two countries. It is known that at the end of 2005 Armenia informally purchased in Slovakia of 10 Russian-made aircraft. Among the aircraft that were aircraft SU-27 and SU-25 and several helicopter gunships MI-24.
But then the official Yerevan refused to disclose details of the transaction. There are also other facts of the official or illegal military equipment, ammunition, weapons and equipment to the Armenian army.
On military-technical cooperation between Armenia and Russia know many. This cooperation was formally established the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Defense, concluded on August 27, 1997.
However, despite this, still fresh in the memory of the facts of Russia Armenia weapons worth more than 1 billion dollars in the first carried out before the signing of the document dealing with the military and political cooperation between the two countries.
During the 1993-1996 biennium. Additionally Yerevan were huge quantity of arms and ammunition: rocket artillery weapons-more than 9.5 thousand units 72 armoured units arms, 600 ammunition wagons.
Moreover, the transaction is carried out without the appropriate instruments, in fact, illegal.
There were no documents on the transfer of Armenia 21314 pieces of equipment, 64 thousand tons of fuel, 15,977 kits and 41003 km cable field. From August 1992 to January 1994, 660 flights of aircraft IL-76 and two IL-12 flights from the airfield in Mozdok Yerevan was moved about 130,000 tons of ammunition.
At present, the output on the basis of the Istanbul agreements of the OSCE in 1999 from the territory of Georgia the Russian military base in Armenia move part or in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
According to The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in 2006, Armenia has not officially declared and concealed facts acquisition in Russia in August of operational tactical missile range R-17 and 32 missiles to them, a range of 500 km, and the exact number 120-mm mortar rounds.
Little is also known for the acquisition of new items Armenia Russian arms, no analogues in the world, blankets for battle tanks.
It is learnt that the Ministry of Defence of Armenia purchased from the Russian Research Institute (NII) sufficient protective blankets for tanks, each worth 2,675 dollars (total transaction is not released).
Interestingly, Armenia is the only country in the southern Caucasus, which is purchased from the institution of such products. These blankets have the ability to reflect the radio waves and make himself invisible object (tank). Thus, the sensors adjacent sides could not determine its precise location, is not close to the site immediately.
Armenia also concealed facts procurement from China multiple rocket launchers 273 mm. WM-80 shooting ranges up to 80 km. According to some independent sources, such as MLRS to Yerevan from 4 to 8 units.
Note that in 1999, evidence surfaced illegal China Armenia rockets “Typhoon”. Official Beijing incident happened then explained that the transaction was effected by non-export of arms dealing.
Following the intervention of the official Baku, the Chinese government has applied penalties against the company for violations of export control of missiles, and it was decided not only to stop sales of “Typhoon”, but to impose a ban on the supply of missiles to Armenia in the form of weapons.
Another country beginning military cooperation with Armenia is Serbia.
Note that the Armenian Serb military cooperation existed in the 90 th years of the last century.
There have been instances when Armenia, bypassing the international embargo in force against the former Yugoslavia, Russia has supplied arms separatist Serb Krajina. In Russia, under the Air Force Air Yerevan military transport aircraft under the guise of “humanitarian aid” Yugoslavia took ammunition, mines, artillery shells of various calibres, as well as emergency kits to military technology, which was a war of Serbian separatists.
In early 2007 the Serbian Zastava company, specializing in defense products, has entered into a transaction with the Ministry of Defence of Armenia in the amount of one million 750 thousand dollars.
At present, the negotiation process is still at a deal on the supply of weapons to Armenia, worth 900 thousand dollars.
In early as September 2007 in Armenia, in the town of Abovyan was resets military enterprise DG Arms Corporation “for the production of cartridges.
It is expected that the plant will produce 100 million rounds per year, and plans to enter the international market and delivering products to foreign countries, including in Serbia.
Through illegal military projects to promote and upgrade the armed forces, as well as militariziruya region, Armenia disrupted the balance, a Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), which adversely affects the decision and the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict on the stability of the South Caucasus as a whole.ala
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