ARMENIAN DEFENCE MINISTER, US DIPLOMAT DISCUSS TIES

Mediamax news agency
7 Mar 06

Yerevan, 7 March: Armenian Defence Minister Serzh Sarkisyan met with
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian
Affairs Mathew Bryza in Yerevan today.

Bryza thanked Armenia for the participation in the peacekeeping
operations in Iraq and noted that the Armenian-US relations were
entering a new development stage, Col Seyran Shakhsuvaryan, spokesman
for the Armenian Defence Ministry, has told Mediamax.

According to the source, Bryza pointed out to open and transparent
discussions of Armenia’s draft national security strategy in the
Armenian media.

The Nagornyy Karabakh settlement was also discussed at the meeting.