Armenia, NATO discuss opportunities for developing partnership

ArmInfo.On November 30, in Skopje, on the sidelines of the 30th OSCE Ministerial Council,  Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with Javier Colomina, the NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia.

As the press service of the RA MFA reports, during the meeting issues  on security in the South Caucasus were discussed.

The Foreign Minister of Armenia stressed that Armenia, reaffirming  its strong commitment to establish stability in the region and  despite the existing challenges deriving also from the ethnic  cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan, continues to actively  engage in the negotiation of a draft agreement on the normalization  of relations with Azerbaijan. Ararat Mirzoyan emphasized that  Azerbaijan's clear and public position regarding the mutual  recognition of territorial integrity, ensuring the further process of  delimitation based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration and the latest,  legitimate maps of the USSR is of paramount necessity.

Touching upon the "Crossroads of Peace" project, Minister Mirzoyan  stressed Armenia's unequivocal and comprehensible position for  international partners on the issue of unblocking of all regional  communications under the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the  countries.

The interlocutors exchanged views on the development of the  Armenia-NATO bilateral cooperation, including within the framework of  the Individually Tailored Partnership Programme.