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The RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Seyran Ohanyan during the meeting in the RA Ministry of Defense with the U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said ‘Military cooperation between Armenia and the U.S. develops dynamically’.

The relations should be nominally divided into two directions, where the first will deal with developing peace-keeping skills, i.e. military industry cooperation, as well as prevention of humanitarian issues, and the second direction will deal with reforms in defense, particularly in military sector. There will also be an exchange of experiences in the military-industrial sphere.

The Minister noted that ‘during this year 200 peace-keepers were trained to input their knowledge in different countries of the world as to the establishment of the defense system’.

R. Mabus gave high importance to these relations and expressed his satisfaction in connection with the work carried out by the Armenian Armed Forces in Afghanistan.

‘Armenian Armed Forces were involved in training by the U.S. Marine Forces in the scope of the Black Sea Rotational Forces 2012, part of which was aimed at developing professional skills among the officers’ R. Mabus said adding that more trainings are expected between the U.S. and Armenian armed forces.

‘Being a post-Soviet state, we basically have all our equipment and basic techniques left from the Soviet Union, and we can exchange experiences with the use of special funds, that have different optical rifle weapons or means. Through the exchange of experience we will have more opportunities to upgrade the entire system’ said Seyran Ohanyan.