NATO RECOGNIZED ARMENIAN IPAP REPRESENTATION DOCUMENT THE MOST SUCCESSFUL

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Oct 4 2005

The sitting of interdepartmental commission on preparation of Armenia
– NATO Individual Partnership Action Program (IPAP) was conducted in
Yerevan on October 3. In the course of the sitting the participants
discussed the NATO proposals put forward after examination of IPAP
program represented by Armenia. RA government hopes to finish the
work till the end of the year.

Head of RA MFA Department for control over arms and international
security Arman Hakobyan stated the Armenian document had been highly
assessed in Brussels. He added NATO International Secretariat
had recognized the document as the most successful among all the
representation documents presented so far, Panarmenan.net reports.

To remind, on June 10 Secretary of the Security Council, RA Defense
Minister Serge Sargsyan passed IPAP Representation Document and RA
President Robert Kocharyan’s letter to NATO Secretary General Yaap de
Hoop Scheffer. On June 16 RA FM Vardan Oskanyan officially presented
the Representation Document to the NATO Council and answered the NATO
ambassadors’ questions in the presence of NATO Secretary General.

According to Vardan Oskanyan, “Armenia has stated it intends to hold
regular consultations with NATO on the issues referring to foreign
policy and security, as well as reformation and actualization of
Armenian defensive structure under the auspices of NATO”.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress