ARMENIA CONSULTS RUSSIA, NATO AND US ON MILITARY DOCTRINE
By M. Alkhazashvili
(Translated by Diana Dundua)

The Messenger, Georgia
Oct 29 2007

Armenia’s new military doctrine will be drawn up soon, following
consultations with Russia, NATO and the US, according to the PanARMENIA
news agency. Defense Minister Mikael Harutyunyan announced that
the new doctrine will be discussed in the National Assembly and
National Security Council before it is submitted to the president
for ratification in December. "We will receive consultations until
the end of October and then the draft doctrine will be introduced to
the government," Harutyunyan stated at an expert and public debate
at the Institute of National and Strategic Studies hosted by the
Defense Ministry. He added that foreign experts helped the Defense
Ministry construct a military doctrine that is specific to Armenia’s
situation. "We did not aim to imitate models of other states. We have
developed a document that would meet our demands and peculiarities
and would be comprehensible for the international community," he said.