ARMENIAN DEFENCE CHIEF VISITS ROMANIA

AgerPres News Agency
Nov 3 2008
Rumania

Bucharest, 3 November: DefenSe Ministers from Romania and Armenia
have signed, on Monday, in Bucharest, a Bilateral Cooperation Plan
on 2009, the Ministry of Defense (MAp) informs in a release remitted
to AGERPRES on Monday. According to the quoted source, the document
was signed at the end of a meeting between the Romanian Minister of
Defence Teodor Melescanu and his Armenian counterpart Seyran Ohanyan
who started on Monday a two-day visit to Romania.

Within the official talks, held at the Ministry of Defence, the
two officials have discussed about the Romanian-Armenian military
cooperation, identifying new cooperation fields, according to
MAp. The two ministers have approached topics related to the reform
of relations between NATO and the partner states, to security in the
enlarged Black Sea region, as well as to the participation in the
fight against terrorism.

The Armenian dignitary’s agenda also includes meetings at Romania’s
Presidency and the Parliament, meetings and debates at ‘Carol I’
National Defence University in Bucharest, as well as at the Air Forces
Academy in Brasov.