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Armenia to send its troops to Iraq
by Maria Kozhushko
RusData Dialine - Russian Press Digest
September 8, 2004 Wednesday
SOURCE: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 192, p.5
Armenia has become the second, after Ukraine, CIS member country,
which agreed to send its soldiers to Iraq. Armenian servicemen will
join the part of the coalition force under the command of Poland.
The agreement on this was reached during the talks between the
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and his Polish counterpart
Alexander Kwasniewski, as Kocharyan visited Warsaw on Monday. The
sending of the 30 Armenian troops to Iraq is one of the provisions
of a broad agreement between Armenia and Poland on cooperation in
the fields of defense and security.
In the explanations given to press, the Armenian Defense Minister
Serge Sarkisyan said the decision to send troops was made because
"Armenia feels itself a part of Europe." Another possible reason is
that Iraq has nearly 25,000-people-strong Armenian community.
by Maria Kozhushko
RusData Dialine - Russian Press Digest
September 8, 2004 Wednesday
SOURCE: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 192, p.5
Armenia has become the second, after Ukraine, CIS member country,
which agreed to send its soldiers to Iraq. Armenian servicemen will
join the part of the coalition force under the command of Poland.
The agreement on this was reached during the talks between the
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and his Polish counterpart
Alexander Kwasniewski, as Kocharyan visited Warsaw on Monday. The
sending of the 30 Armenian troops to Iraq is one of the provisions
of a broad agreement between Armenia and Poland on cooperation in
the fields of defense and security.
In the explanations given to press, the Armenian Defense Minister
Serge Sarkisyan said the decision to send troops was made because
"Armenia feels itself a part of Europe." Another possible reason is
that Iraq has nearly 25,000-people-strong Armenian community.