RA Defence And Foreign Ministers Participate In North Atlantic Counc

RA DEFENCE AND FOREIGN MINISTERS PARTICIPATE IN NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL’S MEETING

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 15 2006

BRUSSELS, JUNE 15, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA Defence and
Foreign Ministers Serge Sargsian and Vartan Oskanian participated
on June 14 in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council and Armenia
(26+1 format).

The meeting was dedicated to discussion of the implementation process
of the Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Actions’ Plan (IPAP),
based on results of the IPAP intermediate estimation given by the
NATO international staff’s delegation on May 18-19 of this year.

Ministers Sargsian and Oskanian made speeches, touching upon
problems of deepening the Armenia-NATO cooperation, events planned
for implementing the IPAP and their implementation.

It was followed by speeches of the Ambassadors of the North-Atlantic
Council member states in which estimations were given to progress
of Armenia in the direction of implementing the IPAP principles,
paying attention to democratic processes in Armenia as a security
guarantee, reforms of the defence sphere, issues of widening the
political dialogue with the NATO.

Then, as Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press
and Information Department, the Ministers answered numerous questions,
which related to priorities of the foriegn policy of Armenia,
security components, regional problems and energetic security,
present developments of the peacefull settlement of the NKR issue.