ARMENIAN, RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCILS WILL SIGN COOPERATION ACCORD

Interfax
March 16 2010
Russia

The Armenian and Russian Security Councils plan to sign a cooperation
agreement, a spokesman for Armenia’s National Security Council told
Interfax on Tuesday.

Armenian National Security Council Secretary Artur Bagdasaryan is due
to visit Moscow at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Nikolai
Patrushev on March 17, the spokesman said.

At their meeting, Bagdasaryan and Patrushev will "discuss the prospects
of cooperation on security issues," he said.

"The two structures will also sign an agreement on cooperation,"
he added.

During his visit to Moscow, Armenia’s top security official is also
expected to meet with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov,
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) General Secretary
Nikolai Bordyuzha, Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov,
as well as the chairman of the business council of the CSTO Interstate
Commission for military and economic cooperation.