ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER RECEIVES THE DELEGATION OF THE USA NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY
ARMENPRESS
SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 11, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Defense Minister received
September 9 the representatives of 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.
Press secretary of the RA Defense Minister Seyran Shahsuvarian told
Armenpress that during the intercourse Seyran Ohanian stressed that
Armenian-American defense cooperation in military education, military
medicine, mine clearing, increase of peace keeping abilities and
revision of defense strategy continues to develop.
He pointed out the importance of the cooperation with the
internationally prestigious US National Defense University in the
spheres of security and defense, 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 readiness to
support the initiative.