YEREVAN. – Along the lines of his official visit to Lithuania, Armenia’s Acting Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan on Thursday met with Juozas Olekas, the Lithuanian Minister of National Defence. 

The interlocutors gave a high assessment to the current level of Armenian-Lithuanian military cooperation, and underscored the need to further develop this cooperation, the Armenian MOD pres service informs. They also reached agreements on enhancing cooperation in several other domains, too, and highlighted the prospects for developing cooperation, specifically within the European Union (EU) and NATO.   

In addition, Ohanyan and Olekas exchanged views on regional security issues. 

On the same day, the delegation led by Armenia’s acting Defense Minister visited the Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament), where it held talks with Seimas’ deputy speaker, chairman of the Standing Committee on National Security and Defence, and members of the parliamentary friendship groups with Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.        

During Friday’s talks at the Lithuanian MFA, the parties discussed Armenian-Lithuanian relations, cooperation along the lines of the EU Eastern Partnership and NATO, and regional security matters.   

Also, Seyran Ohanyan paid a visit to the Military Academy of Lithuania, met—at Armenia’s Embassy in Lithuania—with representatives of the Lithuanian-Armenian community, and paid tribute to the memory of the defenders of Lithuania’s independence and laid a wreath to their memorial.