On the 9th of October, 2009 at the RA MoD administrative complex took place a conference about the work done in 2009 on the RA defence reforms and about the primary tasks in 2010, which was headed by the Minister of Defence Seyran Ohanyan. The Secretary of the RA National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan was also invited to the conference. During the conference the Chief of the RA AF GS, Colonel-General Y. Khachaturov, RA Deputy Minister of Defence A. Nazaryan and heads of the RA MoD and RA AF GS departments and separate branches reported on the work done regarding the defence reforms. They discussed matters related to the RA AF governing system review, conceptual and legislative guarantee of the reforms, staff education and training, implementation of the contractual sergeants’ system, defence planning and budgeting system reform, strengthening the army-society relations and matters related to the other spheres of the reforms.

Special attention was paid to the issues of the defence strategic review and strategic planning. On the work done in these directions and on the future plans reported the Chief of the RA MoD Department of Defence Policy and the Chief of the RA AF GS Department of Strategic Planning. Summing up the results of the conference, the RA Minister of Defence Seyran Ohanyan stated that the reforms have come to such a threshold when it is necessary to refer to the issues of the core system of troops, its structure, improvement of the state of the combat training and also to strategic and operative issues. It was assigned that all the issues of the defence reforms be compared with the results of the first two phases of defence strategic review. RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs