Armenian president meets with Armed Forces’ top leadership

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan participated in a meeting of Armenia’s the top brass on Monday.

Armenia’s Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan reported to the president on the events envisaged by the relevant program.

Greeting the participants and highlighting the importance of the event, the president focused particularly on the efforts towards harmonizing cooperation with the local government bodies.

The meeting offered the participants a good chance to get familiarized with the developments under way in the defense sector, as well as the existing urgent issues, to later exchange opinions over the existing problems.

“I find the current reforms important especially due to the fact that they are being implemented in a period that sees the external factors’ influence on our security environment and in our country’s internal life. It [coincides with the implementation of] the constitutional changes in our government institutions, and the end of a range of important process and the beginning of a new round of developments, which requires new approaches and new efforts on our part,” he said.

The president also addressed the 2015 constitutional referendum and subsequent developments, as well as the escalations on the Nagorno-Karabakh frontline in 2015. He also spoke of international developments, calling particularly attention to the situation in Syria and Ukraine.

He wished the participants fruitful work and an active participation in meetings devoted to such urgent issues as the developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, the problems in border towns and villages, the agenda issues concerning Armenia’s cooperation with allies and programs aimed to improve the social standards for servicemen and war veterans (including participants of the Nagorno-Karabakh liberation struggle).