On November 17, 2008 the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, Mr. Seyran Ohanyan received the delegation headed by US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza. US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia, Mrs. Marie Yovanovitch was present at the meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting the Minister expressed gratitude to Mathew Bryza for his and his Russian and French counterparts’ efforts targeted at finding a mutually acceptable solution to the Karabakh issue. Mr. Ohanyan informed the guests that in the process of defense reforms, Armenia prioritizes the preservation and modernization of the existing military capacity, the review of the defense strategy, military education, organization of trainings for special civil servants, cooperation with divisions of other countries when carrying out peacekeeping activity.