On the 7th of October, 2009 the members of the Coordinating Council of the Afghani War Veterans in the CIS Member States, with the company of the RA Minister of Defence Seyran Ohanyan, Chief of the GS of the RA Armed Forces, Colonel-General Yuri Khachaturov and other high ranked officers, visited the “Hakhtanak” (“Victory”) Park and put flowers and wreaths on the memorials of the victims of the Afghani and the Great Patriotic Wars.

On the same day in the RA MoD administrative complex took place the sitting of the Coordinating Council of the Afghani War Veterans in the CIS Member States, which was devoted to the 20th anniversary of the demobilization of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Greeting those present, the RA Minister of Defence Seyran Ohanyan stated that we can build the future by only remembering and appreciating the past. “We cannot forget the valor and selflessness that showed the participants to that terrible and brutal war, and this meeting is a proof of it,” marked the Minister of Defence. The head of the sitting of the council, president of the Coordinating Committee of the Afghani War Veterans Ruslan Aushev, on his turn, thanked the Armenian side for the cordial reception and passed the Minister of Defence a symbolic souvenir. Seyran Ohanyan decorated a number of the participants to the sitting of the council with “Marshal Baghramyan” and “Admiral Isakov” departmental medals, at the same time expressing his belief that the visit of the members of the council to Yerevan and the agreements achieved in its frames will strengthen even more the cooperation developed during the years. RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs