U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL HAS NO INFORMATION ABOUT REDEPLOYMENT OF RUSSIAN TROOPS FROM GEORGIA TO ARMENIA

26.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. While responding the question on whether the fact of Russian military accumulation in Armenia as of withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia will increase the tension in the region the official representative of the US State Department Spokesman Philip Reeker said that he has no information on the matter.
At the October 25 briefing Reeker said: “I am going to have to just tell you that’s something I don’t have any information on. I’m not aware of the specifics on that, and I’d be happy to check into that. We could get to the appropriate people and try to get back to you on the facts there.”
On October 25 the Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia Ara Papian refuted in his interview to Mediamax the statements that the redeployment of the Russian military equipment from Georgia to Armenia does not meet the demands of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty).
Papian noted that despite the levels for permanent stationing fixed by the CFE Treaty for each of the South Caucasian states, Russia has the level of 241 units of ACV (armored combat vehicles) for temporary deployment in the region. According to the Foreign Ministry Spokesman, even after the redeployment of 76 ACV units from Georgia to Armenia the total quantity of ACV in the 102nd Russian base in Gyumri won’t exceed the level for temporary deployment and will make only 222 units. -0-