ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER MEETS US DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE

armradio.am
17.11.2008 17:50

On November 17 Defense Minister of Armenia Seyeran Ohanyan received
the delegation headed by US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State,
US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza. US Ambassador
Extrordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia, Mrs. Marie Yovanovitch
was present at the meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting the Minister expressed gratitude
to Mathew Bryza for his and his Russian and French counterparts’
efforts targeted at finding a mutually acceptable solution to the
Karabakh issue.

Mr. Ohanyan informed the guests that in the process of defense reforms,
Armenia prioritizes the preservation and modernization of the existing
military capacity, the review of the defense strategy, military
education, organization of trainings for special civil servants,
cooperation with divisions of other countries when carrying out
peacekeeping activity.