YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. RA National Security Council Secretary Artur Baghdasarian met with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Ann Ganzer on February 22. Issues regarding modernization of Armenia's border infrastructures and ensuring border security were discussed at the meeting. A. Baghdasarian presented work done to modernize the border infrastructures and to strengthen border security. Elaboration and implementation of Armenia's border security, in line with international standards, was considered important as a problem included in the Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Plan. According to the RA NSC Press Office, the same day A. Baghdasarian received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of RF to RA Vyacheslav Kovalenko. Issues regarding Armenia-Russia partnership in the security sphere were discussed at the meeting. Expansion of cooperation between RA and RF Security Councils, as well as activization of cooperation within the framework of CSTO was considered as important.

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