Mediamax, Armenia
April 15 2010

NATO states back Armenia’s defence reforms – agency report

Yerevan, 15 April: A sitting of NATO military-political leaders’
committee took place in Brussels in NATO-Armenia format at [with the]
participation of the Armenian Defense Ministry’s delegation, headed by
Deputy Minister Ara Nazaryan.

Mediamax was informed in the press service of the Armenian Defense
Ministry that cooperation goals that were renewed in the frames of the
Planning and Reviewing process were discussed at the sitting.

RA [Republic of Armenia] delegation introduced the implementation
process of the special civil service in the Ministry of Defense.
Highly evaluating the defense reforms exercised in the Republic of
Armenia the representatives of NATO member states reconfirmed their
support and expressed their readiness to continue the cooperation in
defense reforms.

At the sitting they also discussed the peacekeeping activities of the
RA Afghanistan units in the ISAF in Afghanistan which received the
high appraisal of NATO military-political leaders.