RA Ministry of Defense will carry out operations to neutralize negative factors in the Armenia-Turkey developments. “The process sets the Defense Ministry a task to neutralize negative factors,” RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan stated at an Oct. 9 conference devoted to the defense sector reforms.

“That project is likely to be approved by the authorities in the near future and we will start Armenia-Turkey normalization and border opening processes,” Seyran Ohanyan said.

Referring to the necessary reforms in the defense sector, Ohanyan said: “We attach importance to the reforms, as the armed forces achieved the level of reforms to ensure further development.” According to him, the motto of the reforms must be “New quality to armed forces and decisive steps in defense reforms.”