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25 March 2006 - 12:40 AMT

Armenian Armed Forces to Participate in NATO Peacekeeping Exercise

Representatives of the Armenian Armed Forces will take part in the multinational and command-staff peacekeeping exercise Cooperative Lancer-Longbow to be held September 11-19 in Moldova, RA Defense Minister’s Spokesman Seyran Shahsuvaryan informed. According to him, 2 staff officers, 1 doctor and 1 signalman of the Armenian Armed Forces as well as an 8-member section of the peacekeeping battalion on the RA MOD will take part in the exercise. To remind, planning conference was held in Moldova January 16-20, 2006; the general planning conference was held March 16-20. 2 staff officers of the Armenian Armed Forces attended the conferences. The working sitting is scheduled for September.