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    ARMENIA NOT TO SEND PEACEKEEPERS TO LEBANON
    by Tigran Liloyan

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    August 30, 2006 Wednesday 06:20 AM EST

    The Armenian president's spokesman said that Armenia is not going
    yet to send its peacekeepers to Lebanon.

    "At present, Armenia is not going to send its contingent for a
    peacekeeping mission in the area of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict,"
    the president's press secretary Viktor Sogomonyan told reporterson
    Wedbesday.

    He cited as a reason uncertainty of the mandate of peacekeepers
    in Lebanon.

    Besides, Armenia is concerned about the interests of the Armenian
    community of 130,000 in Lebanon.

    The presence of peacekeepers from Armenia could prove of negative
    consequences for the Armenian diaspora in this country, Sogomonyan
    said.

    "We are interested in the establishment of peace in Lebanon," Armenian
    Deputy Foreign Minister Gegan Garibdhzanyan said last week.

    He said that the republic had its peacekeepers "who are efficiently
    fulfilling their mission in Kosovo and Iraq".

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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