On the 9th of September, 2009 the RA Minister of Defence received the representatives of the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, NDU, USA, among them the former US Ambassador to Armenia Michael Lemmon, Dr. Roger Kangas, Col, Professor/Sr. Analyst Anne M. Moisan.

During the conversation Seyran Ohanyan emphasized that Armenian-American defence cooperation continues to develop in the spheres of education, military medicine, mine clearing, increasing peacekeeping capacities and reviewing the defence strategy. He pointed out the importance of the cooperation with the internationally prestigious US National Defence University in the spheres of security and defence, particularly, the education of the senior officers of the RA Armed Forces, the research implementations, etc. During the meeting they discussed the project of organizing a congress headed under the title “Security Challenges of Responding to Disasters” with the support of the US centre and the European Security Research Centre after Z. Marshal together with the RA MoD National Strategic Research Institute. Underlining, that the event will allow the RA ministers and departments to experiment and improve the level of interdepartmental cooperation for responding to disasters, S. Ohanyan expressed his readiness to support the initiative.