MP: Armenia expands arms procurement beyond India, France

Today Armenia has very serious agreements on military-technical cooperation and arms acquisition not only with India and France, but also with other countries that have serious progress in the military-technical sphere.

Armen Khachatryan, an MP from the ruling Civil Contract party, deputy chairman of the Parliament's Standing Committee on Defense and Security, said this in an interview with the Armenian service of Radio Liberty, Caliber.Az reports.

At the same time, he did not reveal the brackets, emphasizing that although the situation after the war was quite complicated - a vacuum emerged in the sphere of arms acquisition and military-technical cooperation, but this issue "was resolved in a surprisingly short period of time."

"In any case, today we have serious agreements on military-technical cooperation, weapons acquisition, as is already known, with India and France. But it should be said that we also have treaties with countries that are superpowers and have made serious progress in the military-technical sphere. Of course, we will not talk about it, but we will say that it is not only France and India," Khachatryan said, noting that "over the past year or two, a larger volume of work has been carried out, the results of which we will see in the near future".

According to him, Armenia also has serious agreements on military-technical cooperation with Russia, as well as obligations that Russia has partially fulfilled, but still has to fulfil.

"We are buying weapons that can be considered ultra-modern, at least of the fourth and fifth generation. We will not buy used weapons. That is, studying the tactics of modern wars, we also have a serious analysis, and we already know from the bitter experience of the 44-day war what kind of weapons are needed. And we certainly cooperate with those countries that have these weapons and are ready to sell them to us," the MP concluded.

Earlier, Armenian Defence Minister Suren Papikyan said that Armenia has advanced and succeeded in diversifying the acquisition of weapons.