BIG CHANGES EXPECTED IN EASTERN AZERBAIJANI OPERATION DIRECTION OF ARMENIAN
ARMED FORCES

YEREVAN, JULY 22. ARMINFO. Armenian President Robert Kocharyan held a
working session today with Head of the General Staff of the Armed
Forces, Deputy Defense Minister of Armenia, Lt.General Mikael
Haroutiunyan.

Talking to journalists today, Haroutiunyan said that with President
Kocharyan he discussed the situation in the region and the General
Staff’s conclusions based on its analysis, operative and tactical
preparation of the country’s Armed Forces. Besides, they discussed the
issues regarding material and technical provision of the Armed Forces
and their financing, discipline and legal order at the armed forces,
as well as the results of the Interstate Armenian-Russian Commission
on Agreement on functioniong of the 102nd Russian military base in
Armenia. President set several tasks on improvement of operative and
tactical preparation of the armed forces, especially orgnaization of
large events at one of the units of Armenia’s Armed Forces of eastern
operation (Azerbaijani ed.) direction, Haroutiunyan said.