ArmInfo. The personal file of Vigen Sargsyan, now the Minister of Defense of Armenia, cannot be given to the head of the opposition faction Yelk Nikol Pashinyan, at his request, because it was destroyed in due course after the expiry of the limitation period. This was stated by Artsrun Hovhannisyan, spokesman for the Defense Ministry of Armenia, presenting the reasons why Pashinyan's deputy request to receive the case on Sargsyan's passage of compulsory military service was not satisfied.
Hovhannisyan explained that personal files of the ordinary stock, in accordance with the procedure established by law, are destroyed after they receive officer ranks. "Moreover, permanently the cases of the reserve are not kept, they are destroyed after the expiration of the statutory limitation period," Hovhannisyan assured.
After Vigen Sargsyan was registered as an officer, his private file, as an ordinary soldier, was destroyed in the same way as all the officers of the Armed Forces of Armenia, Hovhannisyan explained. At the same time, he stressed that Sargsyan, as a reserve officer, has a personal file that is kept in accordance with the procedure established by law.