RA MINISTER OF DEFENCE AND AMBASSADOR OF INDIA CONSIDER IT NECESSARY TO
ESTABLISH ARMENIAN-INDIAN COOPERATION IN MILITARY SPHERE

YEREVAN, JULY 5, NOYAN TAPAN. Mikayel Haroutiunian, the RA Minister of
Defence, and Reena Pandey, the Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of India to Armenia, touched upon the issues included
in the memorandum of mutual understanding signed in 2003, which
concerned intentions of cooperation between the Ministries of Defence
of Armenia and India, during their meeting held on July 4.

Making a record of the considerable progress achieved in the
Armenian-Indian diplomatic, commercial-economic, and cultural
relations, the sides also stressed the necessity of cooperation in the
sphere of defence, particularly, in the technical military field, as
well as in those of military education and information technologies.

According to the message of the RA Ministry of Defence, Mikayel
Harutiunian also received Arpi Vardanian, the Regional Director of the
Armenian Assembly of America in Armenia, on the same day.

During the meeting the sides referred to the relations between Armenia
and the United States in the sphere of military cooperation, in
particular, the assistance of the United States for Armenia, as well as
the process of the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

A. Vardanian introduced the developments concerning Armenia and the
Republic of Nagorno Karabakh in the United States to the Minister.