SERGE SARGSIAN MET WITH PACE MONITORING COMMITTEE RAPPORTEUR

Secretary of the National Security Council at the Armenian President, Defense Minister Serge Sargsian met with rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee Jerzy Jaskiernia and Georges Colombier, as well as Committee Secretary Bonnie Theophilova, reported Press Secretary of the Armenian Defense Ministry Seyran Shahsuvarian. Having presented during the meeting the work the PACE has done in Armenia, Jerzy Jaskiernia asked Serge Sargsian to introduce his personal opinion over the NKR status, the constitutional and legislative reforms, alternative military service and further development of the Armenian army. The head of the military department presented in detail and confirmed his stand over those issues that had been announced before. Upon the completion of the meeting Serge Sargsian thanked Polish and French representatives Jerzy Jaskiernia and Georges Colombier for acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide and for active contribution to the opening of the Armenian border by Turkey.