MASS MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES NOT PERMITTED TO TAKE PART IN THE MEETING OF ARMENIAN DEFENCE MINISTER AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ALLIANCE CIVIL INITIATIVE

ArmInfo
2008-10-13 11:24:00

ArmInfo. Armenian Defence Minister Seyran Ohanyan has met
representatives of the Alliance civil initiative at Congress Hotel

The Alliance was set up in May 2007. Its purpose is to spread
democratic values and to protect human rights by the efforts of
young people and students. The Alliance consists of several public
organizations.

As one of the representatives of the Alliance said, Defence Minister
Seyran Ohanyan is in the three of the most popular and open for
the society ministers. For his part, Ohanyan said regular meeting
with population make it possible to disclose the shortcomings and
remove them later. He also presented shortly the three stages of the
Armenian army establishment, the army reforms and the role of young
people and added that young generation is becoming more literate.

But immediately after his speech journalists were asked to leave. For
this reason, it is not clear what shortcomings they were speaking
about. The meeting passed in the closed regime despite its announced
openness for the society. Though it is not ruled out that the
organizers of the meeting meant only representatives of the Alliance
like the society.