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armenpress: ARMENIA TO SEND PEACE-KEEPING PLATOON TO KOSOVO NEXT JANUARY

&nbsp&nbsp YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS:
At the end of his visit to Yerevan deputy defense minister of Greece Lazaros Lotidis and his Armenian counterpart Arthur Aghabekian signed Thursday an agreement on military cooperation for 2004 which envisages 16 joint actions to be held in both countries and their cooperation within the frameworks of the NATO-supported Partnership for Peace program.

&nbsp&nbsp They also agreed that a small Armenian peace-keeping contingent will be send to the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo next January. That will be the first-ever peace-keeping mission of Armenian troops abroad. The Armenian platoon of 30 servicemen was trained with the substantial help of the government of Greece. The platoon will be dispatched to Kosovo after the agreement has been ratified by the parliament.

&nbsp&nbsp Aghabekian thanked the government of Greece for training dozens of Armenian cadets at Greek military academies in Athens and Saloniki. Lotidis for his part said he was fully satisfied with the outcome of his visit to Yerevan. “As always our negotiations and meetings here in Yerevan have arrived at positive conclusion, reaffirming once again warm and friendly relations between our two nations,” he said.

&nbsp&nbsp Lotidis also said that Armenia’s strategic cooperation with CIS Collective Security Treaty organization is not an obstacle for it to get closer to Euro-Atlantic structures and that Greek-Armenian cooperation is part of that drive.

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