PART OF HEAVY ARTILLERY IN AKHALKALAKI WILL BE TRANSPORTED TO GYUMRI
Georgian foreign minister did not exclude that part of military equipment in Russian 62d base of Akhalkalaki will be transported to Armenia. "We did everything possible to convey the major part of the equipment to Russia. But we do not exclude that part of the equipment will be distributed in the territory of Armenia where necessary infrastructures exist", Novosti agency quoted minister Salome Zurabishvili as saying. Earlier the foreign minister told BBC about the possibility of ammunition transportation to Armenia adding that Armenia is no threat for Georgia.
On May 30, Russian and Georgian foreign ministers signed a joint statement of withdrawing the 12th base of Batumi and the 62d of Akhalkalaki by the year 2008. The sides agreed on starting the removal this year. The base of Akhalkalaki is first to be removed. 40 unites of armored vehicles, including 20 tanks, will get out of Akhalkalaki by September of the current year. By the end of 2006 there will remain no heavy artillery in Akhalkalaki, and the base will eventually close in October 1 of 2007.
Russian-Georgian agreement came for many as a surprised. Georgian President hailed the event as "historic". The joint statement points out that "the bases will stop functioning to their purpose" from May 30.
Russian Commersant wrote that the equipment of Batumi base will head for its new destination via sea and the ammunition of Akhalkalaki base will be transported to Gyumri on "trailers". On May 23 President Vladimir Putin said, according to Interfax, "We have to create necessary conditions for the withdrawal of our forces be it to Russia or any other place".
Under "other place" Putin obviously meant Armenia. Earlier on May 19 head of Russia's armed forces Yuri Baluyevski said that part of the heavy artillery of Georgia's Russian bases will settle in Armenia. While in Yerevan Dmitri Medvedev, chief of Russian President's administration, answered a question concerning the transportation of Russian military equipment to Armenia, "That's a complex issue, one that needs first to be discussed by Russia and Georgia. But there are aspects that we would like to discuss with other neighbors as well".
This statement by Medvedev cannot but be viewed as offensive for a sovereign state as Armenia. It turns out that Russia, preparing to convey its military equipment, precisely rusty weapons of Soviet times, considers it first of all an issue for Moscow and Tbilisi to discuss. Medvedev's "other neighbors" is undoubtedly a hint at Azerbaijan, which raises an alarm that Moscow keeps on arming aggressor Armenia.
Meanwhile official Yerevan keeps silent about the issue of conveying Russian equipment from Georgia to Gyumri. In this situation either Russia follows its own wishes while using Armenia's territory for its military aims, or Armenia greets stationing of old Russian equipment in its territory. The first variant seems more possible. Cooperation with Russia is certainly one of the primary elements of Armenia's safety. But Moscow visibly misuses the reality called Armenian-Russian strategic cooperation.
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