MIKAYEL HAROUTIUNIAN HANDS AWARDS TO SERVICEMEN OF ARMENIAN PEACEKEEPING REGIMENT

Noyan Tapan
March 24, 2008

YEREVAN, MARCH 24, NOYAN TAPAN. On March 22 the award-giving ceremony
of the servicemen of the Armenian peacekeeping regiment, who had
implemented a peacemaking mission in Kosovo and in the forces of
stabilization in Iraq, was held in the peacekeeping battalion of the
Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia. According to the message
provided to Noyan tapan by the Press Service of the RA Ministry of
Defence, Mikayel Haroutiunian, the RA Minister of Defence, has taken
part in the ceremony and welcomed the peacekeeping servicemen.

"We will continue to expand our participation in the preservation of
international peace. Our striving for integrating into the European
society also creates moral obligations in order to have our own
contribution in the settlement of the problems set in front of the
states professing European values. Therefore, we cannot help taking
part in international efforts directed at the strengthening of the
general security as we are not only the consumers but also the creators
of that peace," the Minister said.