ARMENIA TO CONTINUE EFFORTS ON ENHANCING PARTNERSHIP WITH NATO

Noyan Tapan
Nov 6, 2009

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. Receiving the NATO Secretary
General’s Special Representative to the Caucasus and Central Asia,
Ambassador Robert Simmons on November 6, Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan stated that Armenia will continue efforts on enhancing the
partnership with NATO. He considered the cooperation with NATO in the
military sector and the spheres of security and emergency situations
as useful, instructive, and necessary.

Robert Simmons said the NATO-Armenia relations are at a good level. He
expressed a hope that the 2009-2010 Individual Partnership Action Plan
(IPAP) will also be successfully implemented. T. Simmons underlined
Armenia’s contribution to international peacekeeping operations. When
discussing the regional problems, he welcomed progress made in the
normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations, noting that NATO is in
favor of these relations’ normalization without any preconditions. He
expressed a hope that the parliaments of the two countries will ratify
the signed agreements as quickly as possible.

The interlocutors also exchanged ideas on Armenia-NATO agenda issues
and some regional problems, the RA presidential press service reported.