SIXTH ROTATION OF ARMENIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN IRAQ
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 16 2007
YEREVAN, July 16. /ARKA/. Armenian peacekeeping group in Iraq is
to be replaced with another one on June 18, 2007, Armenian Defense
Ministry Spokesman Seyran Shahsouvaryan said on Monday.
He said that the ceremony of dispatching peacekeepers will be held
in Yerevan’s regiment.
The fifth 46-member group is now in Iraq pending the rotation. It
started carrying out its mission there on February 2.
On December 6, 2006 Armenian peacekeeping contingent’s mission was
prolonged for another year.
Over 300 Armenian peacekeepers have carried out their missions in
Iraq.