Armenian peacekeepers to leave for Iraq July 13

PanArmenian News Network, Armenia
July 12 2005

ARMENIAN PEACEKEEPERS TO LEAVE FOR IRAQ JULY 13

11.07.2005 08:58

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Secretary of the National Security Council at the
President of Armenia, Defense MinisterSerge Sargsyan today met with US
Ambassador to Armenia John Evans on the occasion of presenting US newly
appointed military attache in Armenia lieutenant colonel Russell Grimley.
Press Secretary of the Defense Minister, colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan told
PanARMENIAN.Net. In the course of the meeting S. Sargsyan thanked ex-attache
Geoffrey Friedmor for his office, noting that within the 2.5 years of his
tenure the Armenian-American military cooperation has strengthened more.
Speaking of the cancelled departure of the second shift of Armenian
peacekeepers to Iraq, the US Ambassador to Armenia informed it is
conditioned by purely technical reasons. At the moment the Armenian Defense
Ministry and the US Armed Forces command work for sending the Armenian
peacekeepers to Iraq July 13.