ArmInfo. Obviously, the Armenian side has some dissatisfaction with the supply of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan. On March 28, Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia, Chairman of the State Military Industry Committee David Pakhchanyan stated this during a press conference in Yerevan commenting on the statement of the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and relations with compatriots Konstantin Zatulin on reducing arms supplies to Azerbaijan after April 2016 .
"There are statements from the Russian side that arms supplies to Azerbaijan will be cut," the deputy minister said. At the same time, Pakhchanyan stressed that the Armenian-Russian military cooperation is proceeding quite efficiently today. "What was planned for the first weapons loan has already been fully delivered, there are agreements to continue working, which is a serious part of the cost of arms and investment." In short, cooperation with Russia is proceeding quite successfully, "the deputy minister concluded.
Earlier, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on CIS affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Konstantin Zatulin said in Yerevan that they understood in Moscow that the supply of arms to Azerbaijan was reckless. According to him, the people who are in charge of the Azerbaijani direction of Russia's foreign policy did not take into account the level of Baku's aggressiveness and numerous statements about the intention to resolve the Karabakh problem by military means. "These factors were supposed to stop those who supplied weapons to Azerbaijan, sometimes it happens.As long as one agency, for example, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is engaged in the settlement of the conflict, another agency is engaged in selling its products, in this case, defense. But I think Russia has already done the necessary conclusions, putting the latest weapons and their ally Armenia in order to maintain military balance in the region.We urge to forget this topic, as, for example, Russia forgot the dismantling of some monuments to Russian writers in Armenia. made, and the Russian side will no longer tolerate weapons- related imbalances in the region, "the Russian deputy concluded.