RA DM VISITED 14TH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF DEFENSE COMPLEXES "DEFENDORY INTERNATIONAL"

ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
October 5, 2006 Thursday

The Secretary of the National Security Council under RA President,
RA Defense Minister, Serzh Sarkissyan, has participated, October
3, in the ceremony of opening the 14th International Exhibition of
defense complexes "Defendory International" and got acquainted with
the latest defense armament samples.

As the Defense Ministry’s press-secretary, Seiran Shahsuvaryan, told
ArmInfo, the DM also visited the pavilion of a joint Armenian-Greek
enterprise "LT-PIRKAL", which is a daughter enterprise of the
Greek EBO-PIRKAL. Here the Minister has met with the managers of
the enterprise’s Greek part and discussed the issues related to the
present and future activities of the enterprise. The same day, the
delegation, headed by S. Sarkissyan, visited the Military Academy
of Lad Forces of Greece, where he met with the Academy’s management
and a group of Armenia’s AF servicemen, studying in the Academy. The
delegation has also visited the Military Museum of the National Defense
Ministry of Greece. After the meeting with the Museum’s management and
acquaintance with the exhibits, the sides have preliminarily agreed
to hold an exhibition in the museum in 2007, devoted to the history
of Armenia’s Armed Forces.

A meeting of S. Sarkissyan with his Greek colleague, Evangelos
Meimarakis, was held October 4. During the meeting, the present level
and prospects of Armenian-Greek military relations was discussed,
an agreement on extension of Armenian- Greek cooperation in the area
of military education and peace-making activities was reached.. S.

Sarkissyan met with the representatives of the country’s Armenian
community the same day in the Embassy of Armenia in Greece. The issues,
concerning increase of education level of students , studying in Greek
Military Establishments, as well as improvement of life conditions
were discussed during the meeting, after which S. Sarkissyan held
a press-conference with the community’s representatives, where he
summed up the visit.