ST. PETERSBURG. June 6 (Interfax-) - Some Russian armaments will be moved from bases in Georgia to the Russian base in Armenia, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told a Monday press conference in St. Petersburg.

"The armaments will not be transferred to Armenia. They will be simply moved to another Russian military base," he said.

He said Russia would stick to limits on armaments under the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

Russia will start withdrawing two military bases from Georgia in 2005 and complete the withdrawal in 2008, he said.

It was not Russia but the former Soviet Union that opened the bases in Georgia, he said. "These bases are not important from the military point of view," he said.