Armenian Defense Minister, US Embassy Reps Discuss Military Cooperat

ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER, US EMBASSY REPS DISCUSS MILITARY COOPERATION

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 2 2007

YEREVAN, July 2. /ARKA/. Armenian Defense Minister Michael
Haroutounyan, U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Armenia Anthony Godfrey, and
military attache, Colonel Russ Grimley discussed issues of military
cooperation Monday.

Press-Secretary of the defense minister Seyran Shahsouvaryan reported
that they touched upon this topic in connection with expiration of
American diplomats’ official powers in Armenia.

At the beginning of the meeting, Godfrey introduced new military
attache, Colonel Robert Bexter to the defense minister. Haroutounyan
expressed gratitude to Russ Grimley for productive cooperation and
wished him success in future missions and awarded him the Garegin
Nzhdeh medal of the Armenian Armed Forces.

At the end of the meeting, Haroutounyan congratulated the
newly-appointed attache and expressed a hope for expansion of military
cooperation during his office period.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS