PRELIMINARY VERSION OF RA MILITARY DOCTRINE MUST BE PREPARED BY APRIL
17: LAST INTERVIEW OF ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER ANDRANIK MARKARIAN TO
"NOYAN TAPAN"
YEREVAN, MARCH 27, NOYAN TAPAN. Below is the RA Prime Minister
Andranik Margarian’s answer to to NT’s question concerning the RA
National Security Strategy. The answer was given two days before the
death of the prime minister. NT: Mr. Prime Minister, the RA National
Security Strategy was adopted by the February 7 decree of the Armenian
president. The same decree also contains a assignment to the Armenian
government to "ensure … the development and approval of programs
envisaged by provisions of the national security strategy." Has the
current government initiated or will it initiate development of the
indicated programs, or it will be done by the future government to be
formed after the parliamentary elections on May 12? Andranik
Margarian: The government has started developing programs envisaged by
provisions of the national security strategy. A short time after
adoption of the RA president’s Decree on Approval of the National
Security Strategy of the Republic of Armenia – on February 13, 2007,
the RA prime minister assigned the RA defence minister Serge Sargsian
to ensure the fulfilment of the assignment of Point 2 of the
presidential decree. According to the Feruary 26 order of the RA
defence minister, a commission was created to coordinate the work on
development of the draft military doctrine and its appendices on the
basis of the RA National Security Strategy. The commission must
present the preliminary version of the draft by April 17.