SAMVEL MKRTCHYAN MET ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN ON FRIDAY IN NATO

Aysor
Aug 24 2009
Armenia

Samvel Lazarian, the head of the Armenian Mission met the newly
appointed Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Samvel Lazarian passed the congratulations of the Armenian President,
the Minister of RA MFA and the Defense Minister to the NATO Secretary
General on the occasion of taking the office.

The ambassador Lazarian mentioned that Armenian is inflexible
in developing the cooperation relations with the Alliance and the
Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) will serve that purpose. The
ambassador underlined that the Armenian side attaches importance
to the participation of the peacekeeping actions realized by NATO:
in the future the Armenian soldiers will be involved also in the
international forces of Afghanistan Security support.

The Secretary General of NATO has estimated positively the cooperation
with Armenia in the acting frameworks. Anders Fogh Rasmussen has
attached importance to the participation of Armenia in the actions
managed by the Alliance, he has underlined that the cooperation with
the Southern Caucuses will continue, informed the information and
public relations department of RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs.