Ministry of Defence delegation visits Lithuania on working visit

6 February, 2019 17:46
A delegation led by Maj. Gen. Andranik Makaryan, the head of the Armenian Armed Forces General Staff’s Combat Readiness Department and deputy chief of General Staff, paid a working visit to Lithuania on 4-6 February.

The Armenian delegation also met with the Lithuanian Armed Forces’s Command and Doctrine Command Head Brig. Gen. Gintautas Zenkevicius. The Armenian delegation was briefed on the structure and training, as well as the vision of the Lithuanian Armed Forces organisation and development.

On 5 February, the delegation visited the Lithuanian Armed Forces sergeant school in Kaunas. The head of the educational institution, Col. Egidius Karvelis, presented the role and tasks of sergeants in the Lithuanian military, as well as the structure of the school, educational process, and subjects taught, teaching and methodology and other details of the school.

As a result of the final discussions with the leadership of the Lithuanian military, an agreement was reached to continue the bilateral and multilateral cooperation between the defence ministries of the two countries.