On the 27th of November, 2009 by the invitation of the RA Minister of Defence Seyran Ohanyan the delegation headed by the Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Poland Bogdan Klikhi arrived in Armenia for a two-day official visit. An official meeting-ceremony took place at the RA Ministry of Defence after which the Ministers of the two countries had a separate conversation. Then there was a meeting which included the members of the delegations.

During the meeting they discussed matters of mutual interest concerning the activation of the Armenian-Polish defence cooperation in the frames of NATO PfP program, as well as matters concerning the regional security. The two parties also touched upon the mission fulfilled by the Armenian peacekeepers in the multinational division under Polish command in Iraq in 2005-2008; they highly estimated the role of the Armenian peacekeepers. The abovementioned visit in the frames of Armenian-Polish defence cooperation was the first official visit of the Minister of National Defence of Poland to the Republic of Armenia. On the 28th of November, 2009 the delegation headed by the Minister of National Defence of Poland Bogdan Klikhi met with the RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. They also visited “Tsitsernakaberd” – the memorial of the victims of Armenian Genocide – commemorating the victims of the Genocide. RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs