AGREEMENTS ON COOPERATION IN SPHERES OF MILITARY EDUCATION AND PEACEKEEPING REACHED BETWEEN HEADS OF DMS OF ARMENIA AND GREECE

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 5 2006

ATHENS, OCTOBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The delegation headed by Serge
Sargsian, the Secretary of the RA National Security Council attached
to RA President, Defence Minister, which is on a working visit in
Greece, participated on October 3 in the official ceremony of opening
the "Defendory International" 14th international exhibition of the
defence systems, got acquainted with the last technological models
of the defensive armaments.

As Noyan Tapan was informed by the Information and Propaganda
Department of the RA Defence Ministry, a separate visit was organized
to the pavilion of the Armenian-Greek LT-PYRKAL joint venture
considered inferior to the Greece EBO-PYRKAL enterprise. The RA
Defence Minister had a meeting here with the administration of the
Greek side of the joint venture. Issues relating to the present and
future activity of the joint venture were discussed during the meeting.

Within the framework of the visit, on the same day the delegation
visited the Land Troops Military Academy of Greece where it had
a meeting with the academy heads and the group of RA Armed Forces
students studying there.

The delegation visited the military museum of the National
Defence Ministry of Greece as well where after a meeting with the
administration and seeing about the museum, a preliminary agreement
was reached between the sides concerning possibility of organizing
an exhibition dedicated to history of the RA Armed Forces in 2007 in
the museum.

The delegation had a meeting on October 4 with Evangelos Meimarakis,
the Minister of National Defence. The process and prospects of
the Armenian-Greek bilateral military cooperation were discussed
at the meeting, a number of agreements was reached on widening the
Armenian-Greek cooperation in the spheres of military education and
peacekeeping.

Serge Sargsian had a meeting at the RA Embassy to Greece on the
same day with representatives of the Armenian community of Greece,
particularly, with members of the "Yerevan" tutorial body and the
"Friends of Armenia and Artsakh" union. A number of issues on more
raising the level of education of the Armenian students studying
in military-educational institutions of Greece as well as ones
relating to improvement of living conditions were discussed during
the meeting. At the end of the meeting, the Defence Minister awarded
"Marshal Baghramian" medal of the ministry to "Friends of Armenia
and Artsakh" union chairman-benefactor Hrant Basmachian.

After a meeting with the Armenian community, RA Defence Minister
Serge Sargsian held a press conference summing up results of the visit.