Karabakh leader, Armenian deputy minister discuss exercise

Mediamax news agency
14 Apr 06

Yerevan, 14 April: The president of the Nagornyy Karabakh republic
[NKR], Arkadiy Gukasyan, received the Armenian deputy defence minister
and chief of the General Staff of the Armenian army, Col-Gen Mikael
Arutyunyan, on 13 April.

Mikael Arutyunyan is taking part in the planned command-staff exercise
of the NKR defence army as an observer, Mediamax reports.

At his meeting with the NKR president, Arutyunyan noted that what he
saw impressed him but final assessments can be given only when the
exercise ends.

The sides also discussed recent ceasefire violations on the contact
line between the NKR and Azerbaijan.