Main issues regarding purchase of weapons from Russia have been  resolved: RA Minister of Finance

ArmInfo. The main issues related to the purchase of Russian weapons have been resolved, RA Minister of  Finance Vahe Hovhannisyan said on January 31 at the final press conference.

The head of the Ministry of Finance indicated that such discussions  are held in secrecy, and therefore he cannot reveal much.

"As far as I know, all the main issues have been resolved. At least,  I did not receive any reports from my partners from the Ministry of  Defense that there were any problematic issues remaining,"  Hovhannisyan said.

In 2023, the Armenian authorities repeatedly accused Russia of not  fulfilling the arms contracts worth more than 400 million dollars.

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan spoke about this for the  first time on September 29, 2022, at a government meeting. In  particular, he noted that "there are cases when hundreds of millions  of dollars are paid, but supply obligations towards Armenia are not  fulfilled, including by allied countries." On November 24, 2023,  Pashinyan said that the Russian side could write off part of the  Armenian debt in exchange for weapons that Armenia purchased but  which were never delivered. The Russian side does not comment on this  issue.

In January of this year Member of the Defense Commission Gagik  Melkonyan reported that a batch of Russian weapons was delivered to  Armenia. The other day, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of  Armenia, in response to a written request from the Armenian service  of Radio Liberty, stated that problematic issues with Russian  companies in the arms sector have been mostly resolved, but a number  of problems remain unresolved. At the same time, they did not clarify  whether we are talking about contractual obligations of $400 million  or not.