Armenian Military Police to Receive Training in NATO Structures

Officers from Armenia's military police will be able to receive additional training within the structures of NATO, Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement Saturday.

YEREVAN (Sputnik) – On June 6-10, the NATO Mobile Training Team visited Armenia and held a number of meetings with country's security agencies, including military police.

"During the meeting with the Chief of Military Police Samvel Ghukasyan [NATO representatives] discussed issues of mutual interest, prospects of further cooperation, as well as the importance of military police officers' additional training in the corresponding NATO structures," the statement said.

The statement added that the sides had also discussed involvement of Armenia's military police officers in international peacekeeping forces.

The former Soviet republic established ties with the alliance in 1992, when it joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, which was later renamed the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. Currently, NATO and Armenia cooperate within the framework of several Individual Partnership Action Plans (IPAP), the most recent of which has been signed in 2011.