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  • Armenia military to go to Iraq only after parliamentary approval

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    September 22, 2004 Wednesday

    Armenia military to go to Iraq only after parliamentary approval

    By Tigran Liloyan

    YEREVAN

    Armenia's military medics and army engineers will go to Iraq only
    after the national parliament endorses a decision to send them there,
    Foreign Minister Vartan Oksakian said here Wednesday.

    "Armenia has no plans of military presence in Iraq, but it would like
    to contribute to the humanitarian operation," he said.

    In the next few days, a group of experts will go to the area where
    the Armenian unit will be deployed in Iraq.

    The unit to be sent there is a motorized company including 50 medics,
    sappers, and drivers.

    Many Armenian political parties believe that dispatching whatever
    military to Iraq is totally inadmissible. They warn about the bad
    consequences that the move may have for a 20,000-strong Armenian
    community in that country.
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