On the 22nd of October, 2010 in the ARM MoD a collegium meeting took place devoted to the process of the defence reforms, the present issues and the ways of solving them.
In his opening speech ARM MoD Seyran Ohanyan stated that the aim of the ARM Defence Reforms is to create a more flexible and modern defence system based on the basic principles of democracy for civil control and defence planning and management, which will meet the modern military demands. Meanwhile, the ARM Minister of Defence underlined the importance of strengthening the strategic resistance system in order to continue the peace imposing policy by the ARM AF. Seyran Ohanyan also talked about the necessity of improving the public awareness mechanisms on defence policy.

During the collegium meeting ARM First Deputy Minister Davit Tonoyan made a main speech, presenting the outcomes of the present phase of the defence reforms and the future work. In order to assure a long-term development for the ARM AF Mr. Tonoyan emphasized the necessity of the reforms in the military education sector. In his speech Chief of the ARM AF Strategic Planning Department Colonel G. Tavaratsyan touched upon the issues of the AF troop structure reforms and operative reaction capacity development, stating the work to be done in the near future. During the meeting representatives of a number of other sectors also made speeches, and an exchange of ideas was carried out. Summing up the outcomes of the meeting Seyran Ohanyan gave an overall positive evaluation to the work done in the previous phase of the defence reforms, and the heads of the ARM MoD and AF GS relevant structures were given orders and directions to put the main emphasize on staff policy and planning, programming and budgeting system in order to properly continue the defence reforms. RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs