IT IS FOR ARMENIA TO DECIDE HOW CLOSELY TO DEVELOP RELATIONS WITH NATO: REPRESENTATIVE OF MARSHALL CENTER
The process of reforming the security sphere in Armenia started within the framework of the Individual Partnership Action Plan, which implies an individual approach to the country, Major-General Horst Schmalfeld, Deputy Director of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies told the reporters. According to him, it is for Armenia to decide how closely to develop relations with the Alliance, and to advance on its way to democratization, including reforming of the defense sphere. The Major-General noted that a joint Action Plan was worked out, and the goals were determined under IPAP, including participation of Armenia in the Partnership for Peace program, as well as the increase of the civil control's role in the security sphere of the country. He added that the results achieved while implementing the tasks are presented to the Alliance for evaluation in order to determine the further direction of assisting the country on its way to stability and freedom. It is beyond the scope of NATO to approve the results, NATO can only identify the spheres where it can help the country in the reforming process. This is the key idea of the program and it has nothing to do with the idea of Armenia's joining NATO, Horst Schmalfeld emphasized. He added that for joining NATO, the Membership Action Plan is implemented which is quite different from IPAP.
Certainly, the long process of joining the Alliance implies correspondence with the criteria and standards of this military organization. However, many countries, including Armenia, have expressed a desire to cooperate with NATO as partners within the frames of IPAP. Now Armenia is in the middle of this process. NATO contributes to the development of democratic processes, but in the long run, Armenia will have to decide itself what to do with the reforms, as it is Armenia's Plan, he said. Explaining the principle of joining the Alliance, Horst Schmalfeld pointed out that unlike the entry into the European Union which demands a country's own application, the Alliance itself sends official invitations for membership.
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THE TRIUMPH OF THE ARMENIAN CINEMATOGRAPH
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- 1300 Death at the age of 53 of the Cilician Armenian King Levon the Third. He was the eldest son of King Hetoom the First.
- 1905 Fighting breaks out between Armenians and Azeri Turks in Baku, Yerevan, Gandja, and Shooshee.
- 1919 Opening of the Second Conference of Western Armenians, which first accepted formula about "Political Program of United and Independent Armenia".
- 1919 Start of the Western Armenians' Second Conference. There were 55 participants.
- 1980 In Bern (Switzerland) Swiss police arrest Hrair Max Kelinjian, a member of the illegal political organization "Justice Fighters for Armenian Genocide". He killed the Turkish Ambassador in Bern. After a trial lasting two years, he was condemned to two years' imprisonment.
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