ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON MEETS DEPUTY DEFENSE SECRETARY
ARMENPRESS
Aug 15 2007
YEREVAN, AUGUST 15, ARMENPRESS: Armenian ambassador to USA, Tatoul
Margarian, met on August 14 with U.S. deputy defense secretary Gordon
England, Armenian foreign ministry told Armenpress.
It said the two men discussed a wide scope of issues pertaining to
American-Armenian military cooperation and regional security issues.
Ambassador Margarian conveyed a letter of gratitude of Armenian
defense ministry to Mr. England for treating an Armenian officer
Gevork Nalbandian from the Armenian non-combat platoon in Iraq at a
Washington-based Walter Reed military hospital.
For his part Gordon England thanked Armenia for having a non-combat
platoon in Iraq as part of the coalition troops.
Armenian senior lieutenant Gevork Nalbandian was wounded while on duty
in Iraq in 2006 November. He is already back home after recuperating at
the US-based hospital and has a position in the Armenian peacekeeping
battalion.
Gevork Nalbandian was wounded while on a mission to defuse mines. He
lost his leg in a roadside bomb explosion in which one Polish and
one Slovak soldier were killed in south-central Iraq. He was first
transported to an American military hospital in Germany for treatment
and then to the USA.