Head of Armenian General Staff comments on cooperation with Russia and NATO

Colonel General Mikael Arutyunian, head of the Armenian General Staff,declared that the Russian-Armenian military cooperation would be developingand strengthening. He was quoted as saying that there were practically noproblems in the development of the bilateral military cooperation, theARMINFO agency reported. Speaking about today's Russian-Armenian commandpost exercise conducted in conjunction with a field exercise on theBagramyan training ground in the Armavir region of Armenia, the ColonelGeneral stressed that they had been carried out successfully as it had beenexpected. However he admitted that "there is something that could beimproved". As far as the Armenian-NATO cooperation is concerned, it willbe continued within the framework of the NATO 'Partnership for Peace'program, the head of the Armenian General Staff specified. .