YEREVAN. - In 2015, Armenia continued its cooperation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the framework of an Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) and other programs.

The aforementioned is stated in the 2015 Annual Report, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia issued on Tuesday.

The report specifically notes that James Appathurai, NATO’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, visited Armenia on 14-16 January.  

Upon the invitation of the National Assembly of Armenia, the 89th Rose-Roth seminar of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly on the topic “Security and Stability in the South Caucasus: Promoting Long-Term Peace in the Region” took place on 18-20 June in Yerevan. Armenia FM and Defense Minister made an address at the seminar.   

On December 1, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian made a speech at the meeting of Foreign Ministers of NATO member- and partner-states participating in the “Decisive Support” mission in Afghanistan.

On December 10, session in the format of NATO Partnerships and Cooperative Security Committee + Armenia took place at NATO Headquarters. During the session, Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) Assessment Report for 2014-2015 was discussed.

On November 2-6, subsequent event entitled “NATO week” was held in Armenia.

As to the peacekeeping activity of Armenia, the report stresses that in 2015 Armenia continued to contribute to the process on ensuring international peace and security.

On September 28, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan attended and made an address at the UN Summit Peacekeeping on Peacekeeping Operations held in New York.  

At the summit, Armenia reconfirmed its commitment to continue its participation in “Decisive Support” mission in Afghanistan and Kosovo.

The Armenian peacekeepers also continued to take part in the UN UNIFIL peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.   

Since 2015, Armenia has been participating in a peacekeeping observation mission carried out in Mali under the auspices of the UN.  

On February 5-7, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian took part in the Munich Security Conference.

In October, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmond Mulet visited Yerevan, where he had a meeting with the Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian.

On February 17, Armenian Deputy FM Ashot Hovakimyan attended the international conference “Ensuring Peace and Defense: Power of Synthesizing UN Peacekeeping Operations” held in Amsterdam.

On October 5-6, an international conference dedicated to peacekeeping issues took place in Yerevan.