The lifting to Armenia of part of equipment from the Russian military bases stationed in Georgia is regulated by the Armenian-Russian agreement on military cooperation and the disposition of the Russian military bases in Armenia, the quotas obligations provided for in the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, he said.
"For this reason there's no need to conclude a new document or a new agreement between the sides for bringing Russian military equipment to Armenia," Shakhsuvarian said.
On Tuesday a trainload of military equipment and ammunition had set off from the Batumi base to the Armenian town of Gyumri, he recalled.
Simultaneously, Shakhsuvarian noted that relocation of Russian servicemen from Georgia to Armenia has not yet been spoken of.
Back in 1995, in keeping with the Armenian-Russian interstate agreement, the Russian 102nd military base was deployed near Gyumri and is now doing combat duty within the framework of the united air-defense system of countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The base is subordinated to the Transcaucasian group of troops of the Russian North Caucasian military district. The base has an aircraft missile system S-300 and MiG-29 fighters, a 5,000-strong personnel.
The possibility of relocating Russian military bases from Georgia to Armenia has worried Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. It believes that the relocation will not be conducive to settling the drawn-out Armenian-Azeri conflict around Nagorny Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan.
