NA SPEAKER MEETS NATO REPRESENTATIVE

armradio.am
06.11.2009 17:26

On November 6 the Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Hovik
Abrahamyan received NATO Secretary General’s Representative for the
South Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons.

Greeting the guest, the President of the National Assembly attached
importance to the cooperation with NATO and expressed the willingness
of the Armenian side to deepen it in the future.

The interlocutors agreed that the cooperation should be transparent
and understandable to the Armenian public. In this context they
discussed the initiatives of the Armenian National Assembly within
the framework of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, as well as the
reforms in the direction of ensuring civil control of the armed
forces and the cooperation programs in the sphere of the management
of emergency situations.

The interlocutors also dwelt on issues of regional security.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress