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As part of Shant-2015 strategic command and staff exercises held on September 3-4, Armenian President, Chairman of Armenia’s National Security Council Serzh Sargsyan convened this evening a conditional sitting of the National Security Council to provide information about the situation developing with regard to Armenia in recent days according to the scenario of the exercises, the presidential press service reports.

Reports based on the playable situation were made at the sitting, and proposals were put forward. The responsible officials of state agencies received instructions relevant to the scenario.

The president underlined the importance of the drills in terms of taking prompt and efficient actions in a particular situation and inspecting the state bodies’ capabilities and preparedness for such situations.

To remind, during a briefing held by Armenian Defense Ministry’s Defense Policy Department yesterday, military attaches of foreign states accredited to Armenia and representatives of international organizations were provided with information about ‘Shant-2015’ military command and staff exercises due in Armenia on September 3-6, Armenian Defense Ministry said. Officials of Armenian Defense Ministry stressed that Shant-2015 are planned military exercises of all-republican significance and aim to check the mobilization readiness of state and military command bodies in the process of the state’s immediate preparations for defense and repulsion of an aggression, the ability to bring forces into a higher level of readiness, and to raise the level of interaction and coordination of actions. Those present were told that given the military-political situation around Armenia and in adjacent territories, the enemy and the situation in the drills’ fictional scenario were brought into line with reality as much as possible.