From the 14th to 17th of December, 2009 the recurrent 4th sitting of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental committee of the military-technical cooperation took place in Yerevan. The sitting was presided by the co-presidents of the committee RA Deputy Minister of Defence Alik Mirzabekyan and the deputy director of the RF federal service of military-technical cooperation Konstantin Biryulin. During the sitting they discussed matters related to the further development of the Armenian-Russian military and military-technical cooperation.

On the 16th of December, in the frames of the sitting, in the RA MoD Administrative Complex the RA Minister of Defence Seyran Ohanyan and the deputy director of the RF federal service of military-technical cooperation, co-president of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental committee of the military-technical cooperation Konstantin Biryulin signed a agreements about “The interaction between the governments of the RA and RF while exporting goods of military importance to a third country”. In his speech preceding the signing ceremony Seyran Ohanyan underlined that signing these agreements between the RA and RF governments is of great importance for fostering the Armenian-Russian military cooperation and will contribute to the strengthening of the fighting capacity of the two countries. RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs