'This is part of the spirit embodied in the historic upgrade in U.S.-Armenia relations to a strategic partnership,' said a Biden administration undersecretary.
The U.S. Army will have an adviser in former Soviet republic Armenia's Defense Ministry, a U.S. diplomat said, as relations between Armenia and Russia come under strain.'It's a welcome development,' Uzra Zeya, the Biden administration's undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights, told Armenian news outlet Hetq.'We welcome deepening defense and civilian security cooperation between the U.S. and Armenia,' she said.
Russia has military bases in Armenia, but Pashinyan said in a Wall Street Journal interview in October 2023 that he saw no advantage to Russia's military presence in the country in the wake of Azerbaijan reclaiming Nagorno-Karabakh.Russia said this past May it had agreed to remove some of its troops from Armenia.Newsweek has reached out via email to the Russian Defense Ministry and the U.S. Embassy in Armenia for comment.In April, Kristina Kvien, the U.S. ambassador to Armenia, told the U.S.
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