Security
Army
During 1998-2007 Azerbaijan did not dare to launch serious military actions against Artsakh or the Republic of Armenia and avoided serious clashes along the entire Armenian-Azerbaijani border. International experts qualified the Armenian Army as the most combat-effective in the region in those years. /p<>
Another significant achievement resulting from undertaken consistent activities within the Armenian Armed Forces was the sharp decrease in casualties of the Armenian Army on the border line in 2000-2007. In 1998-2007, numerous measures and programs were implemented aimed at improving the combat readiness of the Army and the troop command system.
Among the greatest achievements of these years were launching the process of defense products development at the military-industrial enterprises, introducing production technologies and targeted government financing of production.
In 2007, the RA President R. Kocharyan approved upon his decree the “National Security Strategy of the Republic of Armenia” which summarized the vision of the country's political leadership regarding safe and sustainable development of Armenia.
In 1998-2007 the most convincing proof manifesting the power and high combat effectiveness of the Armenian Army was the 10-year solid peace at the borders of Armenia and Artsakh.
Institute for National Strategic Studies
The Armenian Army has firstly originated from spontaneously formed volunteer detachments and has gradually become a reliable and regular government structure, which was objectively considered as the most efficient one in the region.
As part of the project for establishing the National Defense Research University in 2005 the Institute for National Strategic Studies after Drastamat Kanayan (INSS) was established as a research component, intellectual base and organizational pillar for the future university.
Cooperation with the Russian Federation
1998-2007 under agreements signed with the Russian Federation, state-of-the-art weapons and necessary amount of ammunition were supplied to Armenia, including weapons that were possessed solely by Armenia within the region.
The Plan on the use of the RA Armed Forces and the RF Armed Forces joint military grouping was put into practice, large-scale and diverse Russian-Armenian joint military drills and joint command-staff exercises were held every year.
CSTO
In 1998-2007, a principal change was introduced in the foreign component of the RA military policy due to the adoption of the complementarity principle in foreign policy. In this context, the membership of Armenia in the CSTO in October 2002 played an essential role in the military-political cooperation with the CIS and RF. It became not only the important component of the country’s security, but also provided preferential conditions for military-technical supplies and for increasing the combat readiness of the Army by annual joint military drills.
NATO
Another important step was the membership of Armenia in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, the regular participation of the military-political leadership of the RA in the consultations with the NATO military-political leadership on security matters. The Cooperation of Armenia with NATO in the field of international security materialized in Kosovo. With the participation of the peacekeeping unit and specialists of the RA Armed Forces, Armenia was now viewed as not only a “consumer” of international security but also as its active provider, which significantly increased the military-political reputation of Armenia in the international arena.
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