Sargsyan: Deepening Armenia-NATO Partnership is Necessity

PanARMENIAN.Net - Today the Secretary of National Security Council, Minister of Defense of Armenia Serge Sargsyan met with Per Eklund , the newly-appointed head of of Eurocommission delegation in Armenia. Congratulating the diplomat with new appoinment, Serge Sargsyan expressed hopes on further effective and close partnership, RA Defense Minister's Spokesman, colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan told to PanARMENIAN.Net In Armenia-EU relationship describing as essential the inclusion of RA in the program of European Neighborhood Policy, the head of defense administration underlined the importance of Action Plan, approved on November 14. He also introduced the guest with the work of the commission on coordination with EU structures, which works under the supervision of the president of RA. On Per Eklund's request the minister also presented the reforms in armed forces, which also are carried out in the framework of Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP). Speaking on the relationship of Armenia and NATO, Serge Sargsyan pointed out that the deepening of cooperation is a necessity and was aimed at resisting threats, and those relations were one of the elements of Armenia's National Security. Touching upon the issue of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, Per Eklund remarked that EU had always underlined the importance of peaceful solution of the problem.