Armenian MP calls for ban on information on Armenia`s defense  contracts 

ArmInfo. On November 13, at the plenary session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, MP Gegham Manukyan from the opposition faction "Armenia"  proposed to introduce a ban on publications in the media on the  supply of weapons to Armenia in defense contracts.

He cited India as an example, whose press turned the issue of arms  supplies to Armenia into an advertising show to promote their  products. The MP noted that publications in the Indian press are  immediately reprinted by the Armenian media, as evidenced by  yesterday, when there were many reports on the supply of Indian  missiles to the republic. All these publications, as Manukyan noted,  subsequently lead to problems with logistics. He called on the  Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Suren Papikyan to pay  the most serious attention to this.

The day before, the New Indian Express reported on the dispatch of  the first battery of its Akash anti- aircraft missile systems to  Armenia. The publication also recalls that in 2022, Armenia signed an  agreement with India to purchase 15 Akash missile systems and became  the first foreign country to purchase this missile system. At the end  of September 2022, Armenia signed a contract worth over $250 million  to purchase weapons from India.