April 6, 2007 - 19:11 AMT
Armenia not going to sent peacekeepers to Afghanistan
"The issue of sending Armenian peacekeepers to Afghanistan is not even discussed," said RA Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian said when commenting on the statement by a NATO spokesman that during 26+1 format meeting in Brussels Ambassadors of NATO member states welcomed Armenia's readiness to discuss the possibility of sending peacekeepers to Afghanistan. Armenia thinks cooperation with international organization in post war reconstruction of Afghanistan possible but the matter by no means concerns sending of peacekeepers. "Afghan doctors can train in the Yerevan institutions if several Armenian officers depart for Afghanistan to work in headquarters," Kirakossian said, Mediamax reports.