Arka News Agency, Armenia
Feb 9 2007

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT DECREES ARRPOVAL OF ARMENIA’S NATIONAL SECURITY
STRATEGY

YEREVAN, February 9. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharyan signed a
decree approving the National Security Strategy of the Republic of
Armenia. The RA President signed the decree on February 7, 2007, in
conformity with Article 49 of the RA Constitution and on the basis of
a proposal advanced by the relevant interagency commission set up on
the RA President’s instruction on December 15, 2006.
The RA National Security Council approved the Strategy on January 26,
2007. The document sets the principal values of Armenia’s national
security – independence, protection of state and people, peaceful
existence and cooperation, as well as preservation of Armenian
identity and well being.
The principal guarantees of implementation of the Strategy are an
efficient state government system and ensuring of rule of law,
adoption of democratic values and ensuring of social justice,
impartiality and independence of Armenia’s judicial power, efficiency
of the country’s armed forces and security and law-enforcement
agencies, as well as a foreign policy ensuring Armenia’s involvement
in international processes.
The Strategy need amending in conformity with changes in the domestic
and international situation, threats and challenges as well as the
accomplishment of the goals set in the document. P.T. -0–