YEREVAN, 27 MAY, ARMENPRESS. On May 27, the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Defense hosted U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Armenia Richard Mills. The purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with the plan for the creation of a National Defense Research University on the basis of the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia through collaboration with the National Defense University. As the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia reports to “Armenpress”, Ambassador Mills was accompanied by military attaché of the U.S. Embassy in the Republic of Armenia, Colonel Anthony Sebo and Head of the Military Partnership Office, Major Aaron Cummings.

 Head of the Institute, adviser to the Minister of Defense, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Major General Hayk Kotanjyan presented the high-ranking guests to the current stage of development of the Institute and the results of the research that has been conducted.

The discussion was held at the hall of the academic council where Hayk Kotanjyan, who is an alumnus and guest lecturer of the National Defense University, introduced the guests to the innovative works carried out for the creation of the National Defense Research University of Armenia. Ambassador Mills, who is also an alumnus of the U.S. National Defense University, attached importance to the plan to create a national defense university with the U.S. model in Armenia and viewed it as an intellectual platform aimed at raising the Armenia-U.S. partnership in the defense and security sectors to a qualitatively new level.