ARMENIA AND ITALY DISCUSS ISSUE OF EXPANDING COOPERATION IN MILITARY SPHERE
Noyan Tapan
May 29 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 29, NOYAN TAPAN. During the May 29 meeting of the RA
defence minister Mikael Harutyunian and the Italian ambassador
extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Armenia Massimo Lavezzo
Cassinelli, the necesitty for expanding the bilateral cooperation in
the military sphere was underlined.
According to a press release submitted to NT by spokesman for the RA
defence ministry, the interlocutors addressed the issue of reforms
being impelemented in the armed forces and in the country as a whole
within the framework of the Individual Partnership Action Plan.
The minister also attached importance to the role that Italy’s
Institute for National Strategic Studies plays in bilateral relations
and introduced Major-General Hayk Kotanjian, director of the
similar Armenian institute to the Italian ambassador, proposing that
cooperation should start between the above mentioned institutions of
the two countries.
During the meeting, the interlocutors also exchanged opinions on
regional security-related problems.