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A PEACEKEEPING BRIGADE WILL BE FORMED IN THE ARMED FORCES OF ARMENIA BY 2011
Translated by Pavel Pushkin
Source: Krasnaya Zvezda, June 01, 2007, p. 3
Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
June 4, 2007 Monday
Major General Mikael Melkonyan, director of the department of
international military cooperation and defense programs of the Defense
Ministry of Armenia, reports that a peacekeeping brigade will be
formed in the national armed forces by 2011. According to Melkonyan,
the brigade will be formed on the basis of the Armenian peacekeeping
battalion. Melkonyan says: "In the framework of the plan of actions of
individual partnership NATO-Armenia, we plan to organize a peacekeeping
brigade by 2015, but we think that it is expedient to accomplish the
project earlier than the deadline; moreover, we have all the necessary
grounds for this, such as the relevant base and human resources."
The brigade will differ from the battalion qualitatively and
functionally. The personnel will be 300-400% larger. The brigade
will include a mobile hospital, a combat engineers squad, as well
as a rapid response unit. The brigade will be an elite unit of the
national armed forces and experienced professionals will serve there.
Melkonyan stresses: "We set a task of creating the brigade in three
to four years. If the goal is achieved, the armed forces of Armenia
will be reinforced with a mobile and combat ready formation that will
also become the face of our army in the international arena, will
increase the confidence of partners and will sober up our enemies."
Translated by Pavel Pushkin
Source: Krasnaya Zvezda, June 01, 2007, p. 3
Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
June 4, 2007 Monday
Major General Mikael Melkonyan, director of the department of
international military cooperation and defense programs of the Defense
Ministry of Armenia, reports that a peacekeeping brigade will be
formed in the national armed forces by 2011. According to Melkonyan,
the brigade will be formed on the basis of the Armenian peacekeeping
battalion. Melkonyan says: "In the framework of the plan of actions of
individual partnership NATO-Armenia, we plan to organize a peacekeeping
brigade by 2015, but we think that it is expedient to accomplish the
project earlier than the deadline; moreover, we have all the necessary
grounds for this, such as the relevant base and human resources."
The brigade will differ from the battalion qualitatively and
functionally. The personnel will be 300-400% larger. The brigade
will include a mobile hospital, a combat engineers squad, as well
as a rapid response unit. The brigade will be an elite unit of the
national armed forces and experienced professionals will serve there.
Melkonyan stresses: "We set a task of creating the brigade in three
to four years. If the goal is achieved, the armed forces of Armenia
will be reinforced with a mobile and combat ready formation that will
also become the face of our army in the international arena, will
increase the confidence of partners and will sober up our enemies."