LEBANON ASKS ARMENIA TO SEND ARMENIAN MILITARY ENGINEERS TO THE COUNTRY

Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
March 21, 2005, Monday

The Lebanese ambassador asked Serj Sargsyan, Armenian Defense Minister
and Secretary of the Security Council, to send Armenian military
engineers to Lebanon. The parties also discussed issues linked with
regional security and anti-terrorist effort.

Armenia has an international training center of military engineers
sponsored by the US. At present a group of Armenian military engineers
operate in Iraq as members of the coalition force.

Source: Krasnaya Zvezda, March 17, 2005, p. 3

Translated by Alexander Dubovoi