Armenia Deploys New Batch Of Peacekeepers To Kosovo

ARMENIA DEPLOYS NEW BATCH OF PEACEKEEPERS TO KOSOVO

AP Worldstream
May 11, 2006

Armenia deployed 34 peacekeepers to join the U.N. mission in Kosovo
Thursday as part of a regular rotation, officials said.

It was the fifth rotation of Armenian peacekeepers to Kosovo, where
they have served since 2004 alongside a Greek battalion, Defense
Ministry spokesman Col. Seiran Shakhsuvarian said.

Some 17,000 NATO-led peacekeepers are deployed to Kosovo, which has
been administered by the U.N. and NATO since 1999 when a U.S.-led
air war put an end to attacks by Serb forces against the province’s
ethnic Albanian majority.

Armenia has also deployed nearly 50 troops to Iraq to serve as part
of the U.S.-led coalition.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS