RIA Novosti, Russia
July 13 2005

Armenian servicemen go to Iraq

YEREVAN, July 13 (RIA Novosti, Gamlet Matevosyan) – Forty-five
Armenian servicemen left Yerevan for Kuweit Wednesday to move on to
Iraq for a planned rotation later.

The contingent includes doctors, bomb disposal experts and drivers
who will return home on December 20, said Seiran Shakhsuvaryan, the
spokesman for the Armenian defense minister.

Another group of Armenian servicemen was to leave for Iraq last
Sunday, but was delayed for unspecified reasons. The U.S. military
plane that was to carry the Armenian servicemen did not turn up in
Yerevan.

Armenia’s parliament, the National Assembly, ratified a memorandum in
December of 2004 envisaging sending an Armenian contingent to Iraq
with a Polish division.

The first 46 Armenian servicemen left for Iraq on January 18, 2005.
The U.S. government covers all the expenditures for deployment,
logistics, communications, technological and medical provisions for
the Armenian soldiers.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress