Armenian Peacekeepers Return Is An Open Issue

ARMENIAN PEACEKEEPERS RETURN IS AN OPEN ISSUE

Panorama.am
19:10 23/05/2007

"Armenian soldier wounded in Iraq is still undergoing medical
treatment in USA and will be back home after getting accustomed to
the prosthesis. We have a few positions suitable for him to continue
the service", – the Defense Minister of Armenia Mikael Haroutunyan
informed journalists today. Concerning plans on the formation of
professional army on the basis of peacekeeping battalion the Defense
Minister noted: "The project is to form not a professional army on
the basis of peacekeeping battalion but a peacekeeping brigade. The
peacekeeping battalion plays a huge role in armed forces and we make
all efforts to keep it stable and competent".

What comes to accomplishment of Armenian peace-makers’ mission,
M.Haroutunyan said: "They’ll be back in due time. Now they act
according to parliamentary decision and when the term’s over we’ll
negotiate and make new decisions. May be the peacekeepers will return
in half a year, may be a year or five. This is an open issue".

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS