ARMENIA TO SEND PEACEKEEPERS TO AFGHANISTAN

Interfax
July 21 2009
Russia

Armenia will send peacekeepers to Afghanistan late this year and is
in talks to that effect with Germany, Armenia’s defense minister said
on Tuesday.

The minister, Seiran Ohanian, who was talking to reporters, did not
say how many servicemen would go to Afghanistan.

He said many of the former members of the Soviet forces that fought
in Afghanistan during the former Soviet Union’s war of 1979-1989
in that country wish to join the Armenian peacekeeping force to be
deployed there.