ARMENIAN PEACEKEEPERS NOT GOING TO AFGHANISTAN YET
PanARMENIAN.Net 18.07.2007 13:46 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Decision on enlarging the
composition of Armenian peacekeeping battalions in
Iraq and Kosovo has not been taken yet, colonel
general Seyran Ohanyan, the Chief of the RA Armed
Forces General Staff told reporters today. There is no
decision on sending Armenian officers and physicians
to Afghanistan either, he added.
"As to the officer injured in Iraq, his health state
is described as good and he will return to Armenia
soon," he said.
Earlier, head of International Cooperation and Defense
Programs Department at the Armenian Defense Ministry,
major general Mikael Melkonyan said that Armenian
officers and physicians will depart for Afghanistan
with a peacekeeping mission. As this is a new field
for us, our assistance will be exclusively
humanitarian. The main point here is an agreement with
partners and provision of documentation," Melkonyan
said.
According to the RA Constitution the issue of sending
peacekeepers demands signing of an appropriate
agreement, a special procedure in the Constitutional
Court and approval by the parliament, he added.