The contingent includes doctors, bomb disposal experts and drivers who will return home on December 20, said Seiran Shakhsuvaryan, the spokesman for the Armenian defense minister.
Another group of Armenian servicemen was to leave for Iraq last Sunday, but was delayed for unspecified reasons. The U.S. military plane that was to carry the Armenian servicemen did not turn up in Yerevan.
Armenia's parliament, the National Assembly, ratified a memorandum in December of 2004 envisaging sending an Armenian contingent to Iraq with a Polish division.
The first 46 Armenian servicemen left for Iraq on January 18, 2005. The U.S. government covers all the expenditures for deployment, logistics, communications, technological and medical provisions for the Armenian soldiers.
