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    PRESS RELEASE
    EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    1 American Avenue
    Yerevan, Armenia
    Tel: +374 10 464700
    Fax: +374 10 464742
    E-Mail: [email protected]

    July 21, 2009


    Adjutant General of the Kansas National Guard visits Armenia


    Major General Tod M. Bunting, The Adjutant General of the Kansas
    National Guard, is visiting Armenia from June 20 to June 24 in
    connection with the longstanding partnership that the Kansas Army and
    Air National Guard has with Armenia. During his visit, General Bunting
    will meet with Minister of Defense General Seyran Ohanyan and
    participate, with the Minister, in an Awards Ceremony recognizing the
    contributions of Armenia's Peacekeeping Brigade to "Operation Iraqi
    Freedom" in Iraq. He will also meet with Minister of Emergency
    Situations Mher Shahgeldyan, and speak at a Bio-Security Workshop at the
    Armenian Rescue Service's training center.

    General Bunting will visit the construction site of a warehouse designed
    to house the military field hospital donated to Armenia by the U.S.
    Government and will meet with the Surgeon General of the Ministry of
    Defense. He will also visit a community police station and meet with
    high ranking police officials to discuss a proposed cooperative program
    between Kansas and Armenia on community policing. The Major General,
    and educators from Kansas who are accompanying him, will have meetings
    at the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the
    Ministry of Health to discuss areas of cooperation between institutions
    of higher education in these fields in Armenia and the United States.

    The Kansas National Guard has had a State Partnership Program with the
    Republic of Armenia since 2003. During the course of that time, the
    Kansas National Guard has spent millions of dollars in assisting Armenia
    in areas ranging from dental care for rural communities, to training in
    land mine clearance and disaster response.
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