Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
September 24, 2004, Friday
ARMENIA HAS NO INTENTION TO SEND ITS MILITARY TO IRAQ
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskaryan announced this to
journalists on Wednesday.
“We’ve never declared our intention to send our troops to Iraq. The
matter concerned humanitarian aid and involvement in the post-war
restoration of Iraq only,” he noted.
In Oskaryan’s words, Armenia is ready to send military medics and
field engineers to Iraq, but this step has to be discussed and
approved by the Armenian parliament.
On September 6 President Robert Kocharyan of Armenia and Alexander
Kwasniewski of Poland signed an agreement on bilateral cooperation in
the security sphere. Under this agreement, the Armenian troops of 50
military medics, field engineers and drivers will be dispatched to
Iraq in late 2004 – early 2005 to join the coalitional forces under
command of Poland.