Interfax, Russia
April 29 2009

NATO planning to develop military cooperation with Armenia

YEREVAN April 29

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is attaching great
importance to its military cooperation with Armenia, NATO’s Deputy
Secretary General Claudio Bisoniero said at a meeting with Armenian
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian.

Bisoniero said that military cooperation, forming a peacekeeping
brigade, improving a military training system and developing planning
skills are seen by NATO as priorities in its relations with Armenia,
defense minister’s press secretary Col. Seyran Shakhsuvarian told
Interfax on Tuesday.

The parties said they hope to develop NATO-Armenia cooperation, the
press secretary said.