Interfax - Russia & CIS Military Newswire Monday 6:51 PM MSK Armenia to send doctors, sappers to Aleppo YEREVAN. Sept 10 Armenia is planning to send military medics, engineers, mine clearance experts to Syria to provide assistance to Aleppo residents, Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Gabriel Balayan said. "Those are doctors, engineers, mine clearance experts, people of a humanitarian occupation, who will help Aleppo residents, mainly its Armenian community. On the basis of a request of the Syrian government, we will send experts, who would try to provide assistance to civilians by means of their knowledge, in addition to humanitarian aid we are sending," Balayan told Armenia's Radio Liberty. The group, which is to be sent, will not be a member of any coalition, he said. "It is exclusively Armenia's assistance. The group is being sent as part of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2254 of 2015 and an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation with Syria. That is a result of the Armenian-Syrian agreement. The group will be subordinate to a relevant Armenian agency. But we also do not rule out certain cooperation with Russia or other parties, if the need should arise in the process," Balayan said. The deadline of the sending and the duration of the work have not been definitively determined, because talks are still ongoing, the deputy minister said.