Armenia and US Begin Military Cooperation
The continuing after-effects of the "war on terrorism" have thrown Armenia and the United States into something that would have been unthinkable only a few months ago, military cooperation.
In mid-March, a de-mining centre, financed by the US government and staffed by Armenian army personnel, opened in the town of Echmiadzin. Shortly afterwards, the defence minister Serzh Sarkisian visited Washington to cement the new defence relationship. In the Pentagon on March 21, Sarkisian signed a joint communiqu


