Armenian president, army chief of staff discuss improving armed forces
Arminfo
23 Jul 04
Yerevan, 22 July: Armenian President Robert Kocharyan had a working
meeting with Col-Gen Mikael Arutyunyan, deputy defence minister and
chief of the general staff of the Armenian armed forces, today.
Arutyunyan told reporters today that he discussed with the president
the current situation in the region, the conclusions of the general
staff of the Armenian armed forces drawn up on the basis of the
analysis of the current situation and operational and tactical
training in the Armenian armed forces.
Moreover, the sides discussed issues of logistical supplies to the
armed forces, their funding, discipline, law and order in the armed
forces, as well as the results of the work of the intergovernmental
Armenian-Russian commission on the activities of the 102nd Russian
military base in Armenia.
“The president set several tasks to improve operational and tactical
training in the armed forces, especially organizational issues of
conducting in the near future major events in a unit of the Armenian
armed forces operating in the eastern (Azerbaijani) sector,”
Arutyunyan said.