One of the important preconditions of reforms in RA Armed Forces is the presence of skillful command staff.
When the enemy arms and thinks that provoking war it can win with the help of mercenaries, in our army spirit and high preparation prevail which impossible to implement without important role of commanders.
In the 1st army corpus according to education plan commanders’ assembly was held.

After a few days the Armenian army will be replenished with the 14th graduation officers of the Military Institute after V.Sargsyan.
In 2011-2012 education year the Military Institute will give 250 graduates specialities of motorized infantry, artillery, tankist, engineer and scout.
Examination period lasts from July 11 to 23, after that a graduation ceremony, lottery to define the service place, presenting diplomas and Lieutenant’s shoulder straps and… good service, Armenian army officer!

Аrmy’s image reflects on the moral appearance, mood and spirit of the society. Army’s shortcomings (killings, incidents with lethal outcome, favouritism) can demoralize the society, make it diffident, pessimist, malevolent. At the same time the army’s achievements become stimulus for the society, people’s spirit raises, they believe in tomorrow… And this forces us to raise the level all the time and be uncompromising to the imperfections of the army.

In this year the second – summer training stage has started in the national army. Now in the regiments tactical combatant trainings are conducted, after which the sub-units will set out realization of operational training program. Visiting the military sub-unit under the command of Major General Kamo Qochunts we saw how regiments’ commanders conduct test combatant inspection, specify the preparation level not only of officers and warrant officers but also sergeants and soldiers.

After 6-month interval the RA AF renewed their peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. In Zvartnots airport a solemn ceremony to see off the peacekeeping brigade took place, and 1st Deputy Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan, 1st Deputy Head of RA AF GS Enrico Apriamov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of USA in RA John Heffern were present.

In various official statements it is made a special emphasis that «Azerbaijan doesn’t possess biological weapons» (representative of USA embassy in Azerbaijan), or – «there is no proof which would indicate that Baku possesses biological weapons» or «seeks to create such weapons» («Initiative against nuclear weapons»).

Azeri aggression face-off Armenia’s foreign policy is of great importance. All the international military-political alliances and the signed documents are aimed at ensuring of our country’s foreign security. First of all I should mention the effective cooperation with security systems – OSCE, NATO, etc. Bilateral contacts are also active, particularly the agreement on military cooperation with the Russian Federation can fully guarantee the security of the Republic of Armenia during big regional clashes.