YEREVAN. – UK Ambassador to Armenia Catherine Leach said she is impressed how Armenia, being a CSTO member, is building partnership with NATO.

Strategic partnership with Russia and CSTO is understandable and there are no doubts what Armenia wants to achieve in relations with NATO:  creation of professional peacekeeping brigade, more than 100 people in Afghanistan, the process of reviewing defense strategy and education of professional sergeants.

Secretary of Armenia's National Security Council said Armenia considers important effective cooperation with NATO and stands for complementarity in the issue of cooperation with NATO  and CSTO membership.

“Armenia is a key CSTO member, but we are working closely with the organization, continue our partnership with NATO with a clearly defined program and agenda. And we find that there is a resource of complementarity, in which we must move forward, as resource of confrontation will unambiguously lead to negative developments,” he said.

According Baghdasaryan , Armenia and NATO cooperate in the fields of democracy, rule of law and protection of human rights, institutional reforms in the defense sector, cooperation in cybersecurity and emergency situations, counter-terrorism and corruption under IPAP.

He also noted that since 2004 the Armenian peacekeepers have been participating in NATO peacekeeping missions.

“Armenia is a country assisting regional and international stability and security. We attach importance to the participation of our military in missions ensureing security in regional or international dimension,” he said.