Russia’s foreign intel chief: Discussions on potential US military bases in Armenia premature

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YEREVAN, June 17. /ARKA/. It is too early to discuss a potential deployment of US military bases in Armenia, Sergey Naryshkin, the director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, told state agency TASS on Monday./pp “Such discussions are premature,” he said when asked if US military bases are expected to be deployed in Armenia./pp

An earlier US-Armenia joint statement mentioned that the two countries look forward to strengthening security cooperation, taking such cooperation to the level of strategic partnership./p br