ArmInfo. There was no pressure from CSTO on Armenia on the issue of participation NATO trainings, the head of the General Staff of Armenian Armed Forces Movses Hakobyan said,commenting on media publications about his forthcoming resignation, Hakobyan said that they have nothing to do with reality.
To note, Armenia refused to participate in NATO exercises held recently in Georgia. Representatives of the Defense Ministry of Georgia stated that Armenia made such a decision at the last moment and unexpectedly for the participants of the exercises, since before that the republic had confirmed its participation in them.
Meanwhile, Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan stated that the republic stated on refusal a few days before the trainings, and before that did not confirm its presence there.
Founder of the Armenian Institute of International Affairs and Security Stepan Safaryan in his interview to ArmInfo discusses the latest geopolitical trends around Armenia. He shares the most likely versions of the prospects for Armenia's relations with the European Union, the situation surrounding the Karabakh settlement. Comments on the latest trends in the domestic political arena of Armenia.
ArmInfo."Our armed forces participate in a number of exercises every year, including in the events of the CSTO, and in some we do not have time to participate," Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan said on September 13 from the rostrum of the National Assembly of Armenia.
ArmInfo.Speculations about Armenia's refusal to participate at the last moment in NATO's Agile Spirit 2017 exercise are inappropriate. This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, received in ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.Armenia is an independent state, and can independently decide in which exercises to participate, and in which there is not. A spokesman for the ARF Dashnaktsutyun party bureau Hrant Margaryan commented on the refusal of Armenia to participate in the NATO exercises in Georgia.
ArmInfo.There is no political implication in the non- participation of the Armenian armed forces in the multinational military exercises of NATO Agile Spirit 2017. Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Artak Zakaryan stated this in a conversation with journalists.
ArmInfo. The Armenian delegation headed by the Chief of the Air Defense Forces of Armed Forces, Colonel Armen Vardanyan will take part in the meeting of the Air Defense Coordination Committee under the Council of CIS Defense Ministers and in the joint trainings "Combat Commonwealth 2017" in Moscow and Astrakhan from September 4 to 6.
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