September 5, 2005 - 07:39 AMT
HEAD OF ARMENIAN MOD LEAVING FOR LATVIA ON OFFICIAL CALL
Today Secretary of the Security Council at the Armenian President, Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan is leaving for Latvia on an official call, Minister's Press Secretary, colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan told PanARMENIAN.Net. In the course of the visit S. Sargsyan is scheduled to meet with the PM, MOD head, General Staff chief, as well as head of the Parliamentary Committee on Security and Defense. Within the visit framework a Treaty on Military Cooperation between the MOD of Armenia and MOD of Latvia will be signed. September 7-9 the official visit of the Armenian delegation will continue in Estonia. Here similar meetings are planned. Upon the completion of the visit a Memorandum on Mutual Understanding in Military Cooperation between the Armenian MOD and the Estonian MOD is expected to be signed. The documents being arranged for the signing are sent for creation of the necessary legal framework, which will provide for military cooperation between the countries mentioned and Armenia.