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    Armenian archbishop urges Armenia not to send experts to Iraq
    By Tigran Liloyan

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    October 16, 2004 Saturday

    YEREVAN, October 16 -- The head of the Armenian Apostolic Church in
    Iraq has called on the Armenian authorities not to send experts to
    Iraq. "Otherwise, the Armenian community and its organizations will
    become a target," Archbishop Avag Asaturyan wrote in a letter to the
    Armenian president and parliament.

    Nearly 20,000 Armenians whose ancestors fled the 1915 genocide in
    the Ottoman Empire live in Iraq.

    The Armenian authorities have earlier voiced their intention to send
    50 experts to Iraq to assist in the country's post-war restoration.
    Though the question is to be approved by parliament, Armenian
    President Robert Kocharyan said during his recent visit to Poland
    that the experts would go to Iraq as part of the Polish contingent.
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