Armenia named world's third most militarized country in new reportDecember 3, 2018 - 18:52 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia is still the world's third and Europe’s most militarized country after Israel and Singapore, a new report reveals. Compiled by BICC, the Global Militarization Index (GMI) presents on an annual basis the relative weight and importance of a country's military apparatus in relation to its society as a whole. The GMI 2018 covers 155 countries and is based on the latest available figures (in most cases data for 2017). Israel, Singapore, Armenia, Cyprus, South Korea, Russia, Greece, Jordan, Brunei and Belarus are the top 10 worldwide. According to the report, both Armenia and Azerbaijan (position 12) continued to invest an excessive amount of resources in their armed forces amid the ongoing conflict in Nagorno Karabakh. Neighboring Georgia is ranked the 52nd. The United States, meanwhile, occupies position 34 of the BICC GMI, despite military spending of almost $610 billion (35% of a global $1,739 billion). Even with a military spend of $228 billion, China only comes 95th in the GMI. Related links: Top stories The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. Armenia to sing in 2nd semi-final of Eurovision The organizers of Eurovision 2024 have revealed the running order of the countries in the two semi-finals. |