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.