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NATO WELCOMES STEPS AIMED AT ESTABLISHMENT OF NORMAL RELATIONS BETWEEN ARMENIA AND TURKEY
NOYAN TAPAN
APRIL 28, 2009
YEREVAN
Armenia intends to strengthen and to develop mutually beneficial
cooperation with NATO within the framework of the Partnership for Peace
program. RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated at the April
28 meeting with Ambassador, NATO Deputy Secretary General Claudio
Bisogniero. He welcomed Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Actions
Plan (IPAP) as a format of efficient cooperation. E. Nalbandian
also stressed that Armenia will continue cooperating with NATO in
the directions of peacekeeping, fighting international terrorism,
liquidation of consequences of natural calamities, and in other
directions.
Attaching importance to development of cooperation with Armenia,
Claudio Bisogniero said that NATO highly assesses Armenia's partnership
and the 2006-2008 results of IPAP implementation and expressed the hope
that the 2009-2010 Actions Plan will be also implemented successfully.
According to the report of the RA Foreign Ministry Press and
Information Department, in the context of discussion of regional issues
Claudio Bisogniero expressed satisfaction with the progress recorded
in the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. He
emphasized that NATO welcomes steps aimed at establishment of normal
relations between Armenia and Turkey.
NOYAN TAPAN
APRIL 28, 2009
YEREVAN
Armenia intends to strengthen and to develop mutually beneficial
cooperation with NATO within the framework of the Partnership for Peace
program. RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated at the April
28 meeting with Ambassador, NATO Deputy Secretary General Claudio
Bisogniero. He welcomed Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Actions
Plan (IPAP) as a format of efficient cooperation. E. Nalbandian
also stressed that Armenia will continue cooperating with NATO in
the directions of peacekeeping, fighting international terrorism,
liquidation of consequences of natural calamities, and in other
directions.
Attaching importance to development of cooperation with Armenia,
Claudio Bisogniero said that NATO highly assesses Armenia's partnership
and the 2006-2008 results of IPAP implementation and expressed the hope
that the 2009-2010 Actions Plan will be also implemented successfully.
According to the report of the RA Foreign Ministry Press and
Information Department, in the context of discussion of regional issues
Claudio Bisogniero expressed satisfaction with the progress recorded
in the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. He
emphasized that NATO welcomes steps aimed at establishment of normal
relations between Armenia and Turkey.