THE RA MINISTER OF DEFENCE RECEIVED THE DELEGATION OF THE US NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY
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On the 9th of September, 2009 the RA Minister of Defence received
the representatives of the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic
Studies, NDU, USA, among them the former US Ambassador to Armenia
Michael Lemmon, Dr.
Roger Kangas, Col, Professor/Sr. Analyst Anne M. Moisan.
During the conversation Seyran Ohanyan emphasized that
Armenian-American defence cooperation continues to develop in the
spheres of education, military medicine, mine clearing, increasing
peacekeeping capacities and reviewing the defence strategy. He
pointed out the importance of the cooperation with the internationally
prestigious US National Defence University in the spheres of security
and defence, particularly, the education of the senior officers of
the RA Armed Forces, the research implementations, etc.
During the meeting they discussed the project of organizing a congress
headed under the title "Security Challenges of Responding to Disasters"
with the support of the US centre and the European Security Research
Centre after Z. Marshal together with the RA MoD National Strategic
Research Institute. Underlining, that the event will allow the RA
ministers and departments to experiment and improve the level of
interdepartmental cooperation for responding to disasters, S. Ohanyan
expressed his readines s to support the initiative.