Russia’s Putin submits Russian-Armenian agreement on Joint Group of Forces for Duma ratification
Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted on Tuesday a Russian-Armenian agreement on Joint Group of Forces for ratification to the Russian State Duma.
As Panorama.am was informed from the official website of Russia’s State Duma, the agreement signed in Moscow on November 30 2016 and its appendixes set the procedure of establishing, expanding and using the Joint Group of Forces.
According to the agreement, the Russian-Armenian Joint Group of Forces is to be created in the Caucasus region to ensure the security of parties by the collective security and to adequately retaliate to any armed attack.
The structure of the Joint Group of Forces will be determined by the Russian and Armenian Defense Ministries based on ‘the joint analysis of the military-political situation, as well as the agreed conclusions’.