YEREVAN, OCTOBER 13, ARMENPRESS.  Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan met with Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation Alexander Fomin on October 13. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Armenia Ivan Volinkin took part in the meeting.

Current issues and perspectives for the development of military-technical cooperation were the subject of the discussion.

As “Armenpress” was informed from the press service of the Defense Ministry of Armenia, Alexander Fomin particularly noted the broad opportunities to carry out joint ventures in the sphere and expressed readiness to bring them into life and in this context highlighted holding the ArmHitec-2016 international arms expo in Yerevan.

Defense Minister of Armenia Vigen Sargsyan emphasized the significant scientific-educational potential and the lucrative solutions of Armenia which can be used not only for defense purposes, but also for entering international markets.

The sides also discussed the agreements reached in the sidelines of military-technical cooperation and expressed satisfaction over their implementation process.

At the end of the meeting First Deputy Defense Minister of Armenia Davit Tonoyan and Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation Vladimir Drozhzhov signed an Additional Protocol regulating the military-technical cooperation.

Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan and FSMTC Director Alexander Fomin signed an agreement on the implementation procedure of the “agreement for the development of military-technical cooperation between the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation”.