YEREVAN. May 21 (Interfax-AVN) - Armenia's Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandian and Defense Minister Seiran Ohanian had a meeting in Brussels with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said.
The ministers and De Hoop Scheffer discussed "Armenia-NATO cooperation under the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) and the Partnership for Peace program," the ministry told Interfax.
IPAPs are open to countries seeking closer relations with NATO and capable of building closer ties with the alliance.
Nalbandian and Ohanian attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels on Wednesday.
The Council credited Armenia with having made good progress in implementing its IPAP and expressed support for Armenian moves to improve Armenian-Turkish relations.
Nalbandian briefed the Council on Armenia's foreign policy priorities, on efforts to bridge rifts between Armenia and Turkey and on work being done to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Armenian ministry said.
Ohanian spoke about Armenia's current security and defense reforms.