YEREVAN, APRIL 28, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia intends to strengthen and to develop mutually beneficial cooperation with NATO within the framework of the Partnership for Peace program. RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated at the April 28 meeting with Ambassador, NATO Deputy Secretary General Claudio Bisogniero. He welcomed Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Actions Plan (IPAP) as a format of efficient cooperation. E. Nalbandian also stressed that Armenia will continue cooperating with NATO in the directions of peacekeeping, fighting international terrorism, liquidation of consequences of natural calamities, and in other directions. Attaching importance to development of cooperation with Armenia, Claudio Bisogniero said that NATO highly assesses Armenia's partnership and the 2006-2008 results of IPAP implementation and expressed the hope that the 2009-2010 Actions Plan will be also implemented successfully. According to the report of the RA Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department, in the context of discussion of regional issues Claudio Bisogniero expressed satisfaction with the progress recorded in the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. He emphasized that NATO welcomes steps aimed at establishment of normal relations between Armenia and Turkey.

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