Recently a History Competition was conducted among the students of military-sports colleges Tigran Mets (Tigran the Great), Monteh Melkonyan and pupils of educational complex Poqr Mher (Little Mher). The Competition was organized by the RA MOD Information & PR Department. The Jury headed by Department Deputy Head Felix Poghosyan assessed the participants’ knowledge.

The quantity of men who seek to become contract sergeants in RA AF increases. Colonel G.Hakobyan, head of Division in Operational Training Department told this to “Hay Zinvor” correspondent. According to him, during this training stage the received applications were 50% more than in the previous training stage.
Contract sergeant candidates pass basic training in a regiment’s base. There they get specialization as detachment and platoon commanders. After education they pass exams on physical, combatant training, tactics, service regulations etc., and join regiments which conduct combat duty.

On Armenia-Azerbaijan border, at regiment’s combat duty zone under the command of Lieutenant Colonel R.Beglaryan recently a new combat base station was founded.
This step was essential since cattle theft from the Azeri side had become frequent. After base station’s opening, which has a strategic, dominant position over enemy’s positions, thefts were stopped.

Recently in the RA Defense Ministry a training assembly of signalers-“Harris” radio-station specialists was conducted by the RA AF GS Communication and Management Automatic Systems Department’s specialists.
During trainings the participants set up radio communication between specified centres in ultrashort and short radiowaves spheres, ensured secure communication, created a radioweb consisted of a few subscribers.

Commander of a regiment, which stands guard over the section of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Colonel A.Mouradyan in his talk with “Hay Zinvor” correspondent told that from the enemy’s positions side every day dozens of shot sounds from sniper rifles are heard.

On November 7-9 Needs Presentation Conference was held in Federative Republic of Germany with the participation of South Caucasus countries. Armenia was represented by Deputy Head of RA MOD Defense Policy Department Ara Mesropyan.
First such a conference was organized in 2002 on the initiative of American Forces Command in Europe. Its aim is: to set up a forum where South Caucasian three countries could present their needs in the sphere of defense reforms, where Western countries’ aid is needed. Since 2005 the Western countries started to stipulate such aid in their state budgets, and the initiative got a practical significance.

In the beginning of November a conference on “Defense Policy and Strategy” was held where Armenia was represented by Deputy Head of RA MOD Defense Policy Department Ara Mesropyan. According to him, the Conference was organized by NATO International Secretariat Defense Policy and Planning Department and pursued two aims: 1) to discuss the role of NATO in developing partner-countries’ defense abilities, 2) to present NATO’s new initiative for general, alliance and multinational operations.