ARMENIA’S MEDALS TO GREEK SOLDIERS

A1Plus.am
04/02/10

Athens held a ceremony on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of
the Armenian Army.

Accredited representatives of diplomatic representations and
military attaches, high-ranking officials and officers from different
subdivisions of the Greek Armed Forces, Greek-Armenian clergymen,
as well as representatives of different Armenian organizations and
Armenian students of the "Evelpidon" military academy were present at
the invitation of RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
Greece Gagik Ghalachyan and military attache, Colonel Samvel Ramazyan.

Military attache, Colonel S. Ramazyan awarded the "Mariner Isakov"
and "Marshal Baghramian" medals to the Greek high-ranking soldiers
awarded by RA Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan, including commander,
General-Major Teoklidos Rusakis, former military attaches of the
Greek Embassy in Armenia, General-Lieutenant Khristos Levteriotis and
Captain of Marine Forces Georgios Righanakos, Head of the Department of
Military Education at the headquarters of National Defense, General
of the Brigade, Adam Tomaidis and Colonel Leonidas Papageorgiu.

Greece is among the first countries that showed support to the newly
created Armenian national army by opening the doors of its military
educational institutions for preparing officers. Since 1994, nearly 130
officers of the RA Armed Forces have studied at Military Educational
Institutions of Greece. Today, there are nearly 30 Armenian students
at the "Evelpidon" military academy and the military-medical academy
in Salonic, as reported by the department of information and public
relations of the RA Ministry of Defense.