No challenges to NATO-Armenia relations - liason officer

There aren't absolutely any challenges to NATO's developing partnership with Armenia, the alliance's liason officer said Tuesday, describing the existing cooperation format as very unique.

At a news conference in Yerevan, Rosaria Puglis said they have tailored the Individual Partnership Program to the authorities' needs to address the existing problems and demands.

Noting the the alliance has presence in all the three countries of the South Caucasus region, Puglis said that only one of them, Georgia, has an explicit interest in expanding the cooperation with NATO. The other countries, Armenia and Azerbaijan, have not yet expressed such a desire, she added.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the Defense Ministry and under the support of the NATO Headquarters in the Caucasus and the Embassies of Germany, United States and United Kingdom  to Armenia, is organizing the 11th NATO Week in Yerevan from December 13 to 18 in the frameworks of the Individual Partnership Program.

The NATO Information Center has already announced the launch of the event with the public debate Armenia-NATO Partnership (held for representatives of the media).