On January 29 Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan hosted newly-appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Italy to Armenia, His Excellency Mr. Giovanni Ricciulli and newly appointed Military Attache, Major-General Giovanni Armentani.

A delegation headed by Mr. Mikheil Darchiashvili, Deputy Minister of Defense of Georgia was visiting Armenia form January 28 to 29.
During the visit the delegation participated in ceremonies celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the Armenian Armed Forces Formation and was hosted by Defense Minister S. Ohanyan and 1st Deputy Minister of Defense D. Tonoyan. At the meetings parties discussed possibilities to expand the cooperation between the two defense agencies and prospects of cooperation in multilateral format.

November 10 celebrates World Youth Day and symbolises a day of solidarity and consolidation. On this occasion, a ceremonial event was organised on 9 November at the administrative building of the Ministry of Defence.
The event was attended by Minister of Defence of the Republic of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan, Deputy Ministers of Defence and Chiefs of General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Heads of departments of the Ministry of Defence, the Armed Forces and General Staff of AR, high-ranking officers, representatives of higher education institutions and youth and civil society organizations, as well as cadets and officers from military educational institutions, Diaspora youth.

According to the preparation plan 2013, one-month camp trainings were conducted with artillery sub-units of the 1st army corpus under the command of Colonel Tigran Parvanyan. The high command headed by RA AF General Staff Head Colonel General Youriy Khachaturov took part in the trainings.

On November 9 a function was organized on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the RA MoD Yerevan Officers’ House. Welcome speech was made by Head of the Officers’ House Gourgen Khachatryan. Letters of commendation were presented to the House’s staff by the RA MoD Information & PR Department. “Zorakan” ensemble’s creative director Aram Galstyan was awarded with a departmental medal.

Book of Ara Marjanyan (candidate of technical sciences, UN national expert) “Social-Economic System of Azerbaijan Republic” has been published recently. This is the logical continuation of his previous book “Virtual Demography of Azerbaijan Republic”.
The book dwells upon Azerbaijan’s petrol sector, main macroeconomic rates, state budget, external trade and military expenses. 80 diagrams and Wikileaks publications on Azerbaijan are also presented.

On november 5 on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of formation of Intelligence troops, in one of the RA AF regiments a festival was organized where Defense Minister S.Ohanyan, AF GS Head, Colonel General Yu. Khachaturov were present. Accompanied by high-ranking officers, servicemen they familiarized themselves with arms and technology.