National Assembly of RA, Armenia
Oct 12 2007

Defense Minister of Romania in the National Assembly

On October 11 Mr. Artur Aghabekyan, Chairman of the Standing
Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs of the
National Assembly received the delegation headed by the Defense
Minister of Romania Mr. Teodor Viorel Meleºcanu.

The sides discussed issues related to the development opportunities
of military technical cooperation of the two countries during the
meeting.

The Defense Minister of Romania said that the cooperation programme
of the two countries of the defense sphere for the next year had
already been established during this meeting. It was decided to hold
joint debates at the level of defense ministers, specialists and
experts. The two countries have common problems, which related to the
stability and peace, improvement of the legal field, training of the
staff, display of mutual practical support through technical
cooperation of the Black Sea region.

Mr. Artur Aghabekyan highly assessed the reforms and achievements
made in the defense sphere, which may be useful for Armenia. He
touched upon the necessity of developing the cooperation between the
two countries by military technical agreement.

Both sides gave preference to the political solutions of the core
issues and highlighted the role of the parliaments of the two
countries in the aspect of the development of military technical
cooperation.