SOUTH CAUCASUS IS A NATO PRIORITY

Pan Armenian
04.10.2005 13:36

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Armenian Speaker Artur Baghdassaryan met
with NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) Sec. Gen. Simon Lunn, who
is in Yerevan to take part in Security in the South Caucasus joint
seminar of the NATO PA and National Assembly of Armenia, reported the
Press Service of the Armenian Parliament. Chairman of the Standing
Commission on Defense, Internal Affairs and National Security Mher
Shahgeldyan was also present at the meeting. The South Caucasus
is a priority to the NATO PA, stated Simon Lunn. He emphasized the
importance of carrying out active work at the inter-parliamentary
assembly. The interlocutors discussed opportunities to hold
international conferences on fighting terror and use of chemical
weapons in Armenia in 2006. Simon Lunn expressed the NATO PA full
support to these programs. Artur Baghdassaryan noted the importance
of NATO PA support to the forming of regional partnership. Common
discussions help overcoming differences, he added.