ARMENIAN PEACE-KEEPERS CARRY OUT THEIR MISSION SUCCESSFULLY, RA DEPUTY DEFENCE MINISTER MENTIONS
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 26 2005
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The third shift
of Armenian peace-keepers will leave for Kosovo in late October.
Artur Aghabekian, RA Deputy Defence Minister, informed journalists
about it in his interview. According to him, the approaches towards
implementation of a peace-keeping mission change and in this respect
the subdivision chosen for this purpose “is trained on the basis of
fresh information received from Kosovo.”
As for the Armenian servicemen carrying out a peace-keeping mission
in Iraq, according to the Deputy Minister, there are no victims among
the Armenian peace-keepers in consequence of terrorist acts that
have become frequent lately in Iraq and if there were victims the
journalists would be the first to learn it. “Our servicemen are very
fine in Iraq and carry out their tasks successfully. This refers to all
of them – drivers, doctors, mine clearers and the intercommunication
officer who is carrying out his mission in Baghdad,” Artur Aghabekian
declared.