Military Doctrine of Armenia to be ready ahead of schedule - till the end of 2008

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia is capable of realizing Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan, the IPAP successfully, there exists all objective preconditions and reliable base for that purpose, head of International Cooperation and Defense Programs Department of the Armenian Defense Ministry General Mikael Melkonyan stated to a press conference in Yerevan. He said, Military Doctrine of Armenia will be ready till the end of 2008, which is ahead of the scheduled time planned by the Program. "We must finish works on the Doctrine till the end of 2008, but already today the process goes on much quicker. In the coming months we will form an inter-departmental commission, which will begin its work on the bases of the project prepared by our experts," he said.



He also underlined in fact the issue of establishing the institute of military ombudsman is already resolved. "The government has assigned corresponding financial means and a separate post in the RA Office of Ombudsman for Ombudsman's Assistant on Armed Forces is already confirmed," Melkonyan said. The major general underlined any serviceman can freely turn to the human rights advocate for assistance.