DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Oct 27 2006

SERGE SARGSYAN MET WITH NATO CONSULTATION GROUP

October 26 Secretary of the Security Council under RA President, RA
Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan met with the members of the NATO
international consultation group.
According to the information DE FACTO got at the RA MOD Press
Service, Slovenia’s Plenipotentiary FM Damian Bergant, Advisor to
Lithuania’s National Defense Minister James Gribovsky, the U. K. MOD
official John Drievinkievich, Baltic Defense College Senior
Scientific Worker Margus Colgan, Director of Latvia’s Foreign Affairs
Institute Atis Lejins and others are in the foreign delegation.
In the course of the meeting the representative of the U. K. noted
the consultation group approved all the provisions of the RA national
security strategy draft referring to the development of the state and
civil society. Touching on the security issues the delegation’s
members discussed the geopolitical situation in Armenia and stated
two of four neighbor states – Azerbaijan and Turkey had blockaded the
border with Armenia, while other vitally important ways passed via
Iran and Georgia, where the situation is complicated too. Speaking of
Armenia’s foreign political course the delegation’s members remarked
it was mainly conditioned by the two issues, which are very important
for any Armenian – Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian Genocide in
Turkey. The guests stated under the circumstances Armenia had decided
to pursue a balanced policy.