Armenia will participate militarily in Syria if necessary, Armenian Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan said Tuesday in Yerevan at a joint press conference with his Cypriot counterpart Savvas Angelidis.
“We will try to collaborate with non-parliamentary forces while making any decision,” Tonoyan said, Novosti-Armenia reports.
Asked about reports on verbal agreement to dispatch the mission, Tonoyan said there was a de facto written request from the Syrian authorities.
The Armenian Defense Ministry sent 83 medics, demining experts and other military personnel to the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday, February 8. It said they will help civilians and clear landmines left behind from the continuing bloody conflict in the Arab state, Armenian media reports.