PARLIAMENT APPROVES PRESIDENT’S SUGGESTION

Panorama.am
17:48 04/12/2007

Today the National Assembly approved with a vote of 79 "for", 10
"against" and 11 "abstained" the suggestion of the president of the
republic to prolong the memorandum on regulation of management and
other issues of multination division in the composition of Iraqi
consolidation forces. "Dashnaksutiun" and "Zharangutiun" voted
"against" and "abstained" and Orinats Yerkir did not take part in
the voting.

It must be noted that 276 Armenia military servants have been sent to
Iraq since January, 2005 in order to engage "defense and humanitarian"
mission. The minister said no casualties were reported among Armenian
since that time. Our military servants are sent to Iraq on a term of
6 months. Armenian peacekeeping have been exercising their mission
within the composition of Polish division since January 25, 2005.