Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian
BRUSSELS””Armenia is committed to assisting international partners to establish peace and security in Afghanistan, according to Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian. Nalbandian joined his counterparts in Brussels on Tuesday at a ministerial meeting of the NATO Resolute Support Mission, a NATO-led international effort established in late 2014 to support the Afghan National Security Force (ANSF), where he expressed Armenia’s continued support of the mission.
The Resolute Support Mission consists of more than 12,500 troops focused on building ANSF sustainability. 28 NATO Allies and 14 partner nations, including the Republic of Armenia, contribute to the mission.
The foreign ministers of NATO-Resolute Support nations and Afghanistan met to discuss the mission’s operations over the last year, and to reaffirm their endured commitment to enhance security and to promote peace, development, human rights and the rule of law in Afghanistan.
In his speech, Nalbandian noted that the NATO mission was “still fragile,”