DRAFT PROJECT OF ARMENIA’S NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY TO BE APPROVED IN NOVEMBER

Arka News Agency, Armenia
Nov 8 2006

YEREVAN, November 8. /ARKA/. The draft project of Armenia’s national
security strategy is to be approved in November, Hayk Kotanjyan,
secretary of the interdepartmental commission for elaboration of the
National Security Strategy, counselor of the Armenian defense minister
and major-general reported.

Kotanjyan reported that Chairman of the Interdepartmental commission,
Defense Minister Serj Sargsyan appeal to Rector of the Yerevan State
University, Professor Aram Simonyan and President of the National
Academy of Sciences Radik Martirosyan with the relevant request.

"It is planned to start open parliamentary discussion of the draft
project before December. According to the results of open discussions,
the Interdepartmental commission will submit the project to the
government for approval," Kotanjyan said.

He said that from the viewpoint of the project’s contents, the
specificity consists in the Strategy’s aim at the multidirectional
balance of secure orientations, as well as transformation of the
society by democratic reforms and integration into the international
community.

"Another important specificity is that the Commission simultaneously
elaborates two mutually conditioned products: the Strategy of
national security and a portfolio of departmental programs, providing
implementation of the National Security Strategy in all the spheres
of Armenia’s life," Kotanjyan reported.

"The basis of the interdepartmental elaboration of the project was
the report of Defense Minister Serj Sargsyan called ‘Basic Trends of
Armenia’s National Security Strategy’," Kotanjyan said.