ARMENIA TO SEND BATTALION CONSISTING OF 70 PEACE-KEEPERS TO KOSOVO

Noyan Tapan

Ma y 22, 2008

YEREVAN, MAY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA National Assembly unanimously,
with 88 votes for, ratified the protocol On Making Amendments to the
Mutual Understanding Memorandum of September 3, 2003 on inclusion
of the rifle platoon of RA Armed Forces in the battalion of Greek
Armed Forces within the framework of the peace-keeping forces of
Kosovo signed on December 19, 2007 and January 21, 2008 between the
Republic of Armenia and Republic of Greece.

According to it, it is envisaged to extend the RA Armed Forces
peace-keeping participation in Kosovo: a battalion of 70 people
consisting of two platoons will leave there instead of the rifle
platoon of 34 people starting the next shift.

RA Defence Minister Seyran Ohanian told journalists the day before
that "negotiations were carried out over increase of the number of
Armenian peace-keepers in Iraq, but no final decision has been made
by our country’s leadership yet." According to the Minister, there
is no agreement on sending Armenian peacekeepers to Afghanistan.
From: Baghdasarian