PERSPECTIVES OF MILITARY COOPERATION’S DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN RA AND U. K. DISCUSSED IN YEREVAN

DeFacto Agency
July 21 2008
Armenia

The issues referring to Armenia’s cooperation with European countries,
in part, with the U. K., were discussed on July 21, in the course of
RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian’s meeting with Charles Lonsdale,
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the U. K. to RA.

Seyran Ohanian assured that Armenia would go no developing cooperation
with the U. K. in military sphere, RA MoD Press Office reports. He
stated that Armenia had entered in a qualitatively new stage of
relations with Europe and had undertaken seriously steps to achieve
an appropriate cooperation level with European countries in military
and military-political sphere.

RA Defense Minister expressed readiness to develop cooperation,
in part, in peacemaking sphere, and in this context touched on the
issue of realization of peacemaking mission in Afghanistan.

In the course of the meeting the parties discussed current level
of bilateral cooperation in military sphere and perspectives of its
further deepening.