Yerevan/Mediamax/. Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said today that the interstate agreement due to be signed with Russian Federation will allow realizing military-technical cooperation between the two countries "on privileged terms".

Seyran Ohanyan said that "our military and military-technical cooperation with Russia is on a high level and it allowed us to make some changes in our interstate agreements, Mediamax reports.

"Back in January 2003, the intergovernmental agreement on Armenia-Russia military-technical cooperation was signed. The process of improving and deepening our works in military-technical area allowed our country's leadership to instruct enhancing the cooperation from the intergovernmental level up to state level. The signing of Armenia-Russia interstate agreement is now worked out and is in the final phase of discussions", said Seyran Ohanyan.

Mediamax recalls that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his consent to the Russian government's proposal to hold talks on signing an agreement on military-technical cooperation development with Armenia a few days ago.