On 18 June, a contract for buy of CAESAR self-propelled artillery items by Yerevan was signed in Paris. This was introduced by French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu on his Twitter account.
“We proceed to strengthen our defence relations with Armenia. A heat and productive dialog with my Armenian counterpart Suren Papikyan passed off within the framework of “Eurosatory”. A brand new necessary milestone is the signing of a contract for buy of CAESAR cannons,” Lecornu wrote.
Notice that no amount of such a artillery to be delivered to Yerevan is reported. It must be famous that such a self-propelled howitzers proved themselves through the repulsion of Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine.
Based on Armenian media, Armenian Protection Minister Suren Papikyan on the assembly with Lecornu said agreements on strengthening military-technical cooperation between the 2 nations.
Later it grew to become identified that the Armenian Protection Ministry and the French military-industrial firm KNDS signed an settlement on military-technical cooperation.