ARMENIAN LEADER, FSB HEAD DISCUSS REGIONAL PROBLEMS

Interfax
Sept 10 2009
Russia

YEREVAN Sept 10

Armenia attributes large significance to cooperation and regular
contacts with Russian security services, Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan told Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov
on Wednesday.

He said the Armenian and Russian security services were working
together to suppress new threats and challenges, a source at the
Armenian presidential press office told Interfax.

Sargsyan also lauded the Russian role in stabilizing the region.

Bortnikov said he was satisfied with the cooperation with Armenian
colleagues.

The sides discussed a number of regional problems.

Bortnikov visited Yerevan to attend a meeting of Armenian and Russian
security service chiefs.