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.