YEREVAN. - The annual Armenian-German military cooperation talks took place in the Defense Policy Department of the Armenian Ministry of Defense Wednesday.

The meeting was attended by the delegation led by the head of the Department for International Cooperation of the German Federal Ministry of Defense, Colonel Christian Schmidt.  

At the meeting, the participants summed up the results of the bilateral cooperation plan for 2016, as well as drew out the draft military cooperation plan for 2017.

To recap the negotiation results, First Deputy Defense Minister of Armenia Davit Tonoyan received the German delegation. The sides highly appreciated the negotiation results and the level of Armenian-German cooperation in the area of defense, as well as the joint participation in the actions aimed at ensuring international stability in Afghanistan. They also stressed their readiness to further develop the cooperation dynamics.