ARMENIA CANNOT REMAIN INDIFFERENT TO THE FATES OF THE PEOPLES WHO NEED
PEACE: DEPUTY MINISTER OF ARMENIA
YEREVAN, APRIL 15. ARMINFO. Armenia cannot remain indifferent to the
fates of the peoples who need peace. Deputy Minister of Armenia,
Lt.General Artur Aghabekyan made this statement at a ceremonial
dispatch of a regular Armenian peace-making platoon to Kosovo
(Serbia).
He said that fulfilling their peace-making mission and making their
modest contribution to strengthening of international peace and
stability, the Armenian peace-makers could be sure that they hereby
strengthened stable development of their Motherland, aspiration of
Armenia to live in peace and agreement. “Peacemaking is an honorable
and responsible mission,” he said. He expressed confidence that like
the peace-makers who returned home today, who were on a mission to
Kosovo and then left for Iraq to render assistance to the
international efforts in maintaining peace ad stability in that
country and combating international terrorism, the new platoon sent to
Kosovo would fulfill its tasks and would return to the Motherland in
several months.
To note, a new contingent of Armenian peace-makers consisting of 34
people was sent to Kosovo today headed by First Lieutenant Ruben
Papyan. 18 of 34 peace-makers were sent to Kosovo for the second
time. First time they were as part of a platoon that had fulfilled its
mission to Kosovo from Feb to Sept of 2004. Several of the peacemakers
who have already been in Kosovo are preparing for a dispatch to
Iraq. Last night a second group of Armenian peacemakers arrived from
Kosovo in Yerevan, who had been in that town since Sept 8, 2004. The
platoon was on a peacemaking mission to the village populated with
Albanians not far from Serbs. On February 12 2004 the first platoon of
Armenian peacemakers consisting of 34 people left for Kosovo as part
of a Greek battalion. A memorandum on participation of a shooting
platoon of the Armenian Armed Forces in the peacemaking operation in
Kosovo as part of the Greek battalion was signed on Sept 3 2003 in
Yerevan and ratified by the Armenian Parliament on Dec 13 2003.- M-