MILITARY DOCTRINE OF ARMENIA TO BE READY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE – TILL THE END OF 2008

PanARMENIAN.Net
29.05.2007 14:01 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia is capable of realizing Armenia-NATO
Individual Partnership Action Plan, the IPAP successfully, there
exists all objective preconditions and reliable base for that purpose,
head of International Cooperation and Defense Programs Department of
the Armenian Defense Ministry General Mikael Melkonyan stated to a
press conference in Yerevan. He said, Military Doctrine of Armenia
will be ready till the end of 2008, which is ahead of the scheduled
time planned by the Program. "We must finish works on the Doctrine
till the end of 2008, but already today the process goes on much
quicker. In the coming months we will form an inter-departmental
commission, which will begin its work on the bases of the project
prepared by our experts," he said.

He also underlined in fact the issue of establishing the institute
of military ombudsman is already resolved. "The government has
assigned corresponding financial means and a separate post in the
RA Office of Ombudsman for Ombudsman’s Assistant on Armed Forces is
already confirmed," Melkonyan said. The major general underlined any
serviceman can freely turn to the human rights advocate for assistance.