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From: Abe Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 16:30:59 EST
AZERBAIJAN, RUSSIA SIGN MILITARY-COOPERATION AGREEMENT
Following talks in Baku on 27 February, visiting Russian Defense
Minister Sergei Ivanov and his Azerbaijani counterpart Colonel General
Safar Abiev signed a cooperation agreement for 2003 between their
respective ministries, ITAR-TASS and Turan reported. Ivanov said the
agreement paves the way for "large-scale cooperation," including
contracts to supply weapons and spare parts and to train military
personnel. But he added that Azerbaijan will not supply either
Azerbaijan or Armenia with weaponry that would destabilize the military
balance in the South Caucasus. Ivanov also announced that the Russian
Prosecutor-General's Office has closed its investigation into 1997
allegations that between 1994-96 Russia illegally supplied Armenia with
military hardware worth over $1 billion, Turan reported (see "RFE/RL
Newsline," 3 April and 16 September 1997). LF
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