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    Baltic News Service
    September 6, 2004

    ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER COMING TO LITHUANIA

    VILNIUS, Sep 06

    Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian is coming to Lithuania this
    week to meet his Lithuanian colleagues, discuss bilateral military
    cooperation and learn about NATO's air-policing functions in the
    Baltic states.

    Sargsian, who is coming to Vilnius on Tuesday evening, will meet
    on Wednesday with President Valdas Adamkus, Defense Minister Linas
    Linkevicius, Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis, members of the
    parliament's National Security and Defense Committee and chairman
    Alvydas Sadeckas and Land Forces Commander Brigadier General Arvydas
    Pocius.

    The Lithuanian Defense Ministry said main items on the agenda of
    the meeting between Linkevicius and Sargsian would be prospects
    of regional cooperation, bilateral military ties, NATO enlargement
    process and the course of armed forces reforms.

    After the meeting, the two officials will sign a cooperation treaty
    on studies of Armenian officers at the Lithuanian War Academy.
    Analogous documents have already been signed with Georgian and
    Azerbaijani ministries of defense.

    On Thursday, Sargsian will go to the Lithuanian First Air Base
    in Zokniai to meet with soldiers of the international contingent
    performing the air-policing mission in the three Baltic states.

    NATO forces have started patrolling the Lithuanian, Latvian and
    Estonian air space since the Baltic states joined the alliance in the
    end of March. Danish troops with five F-16 fighters are now guarding
    the Baltic air space.

    Lithuania and Armenia signed a defense cooperation treaty in 2002.

    The Lithuanian Defense Ministry has taken the initiative to transfer
    the Baltic defense cooperation experience to countries of the South
    Caucasus region.

    Lithuania also assists in the training of Armenian officers by offering
    a possibility to study at Lithuanian military training institutions
    and paying for studies of one Armenian officer at the Baltic Defense
    College in the Estonian city Tartu.

    Armenia has been a partner in the Partnership for Peace program
    since 1994.
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