Sargsyan: The Minister and owner of the Defense Ministry should  always be a minister, and woe to the country where it is not so

ArmInfo. The owner and the owner of the Ministry of Defense should always be the head of the defense department, and woe to the country where it is not so.   Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan said in an interview with  Shant TV.

At the same time, he stated that his relations with servicemen both  during this year, and much earlier, during the work in the office of  the President of Armenia, and during the service in the Ministry of  Defense have always been brilliant. According to him, this is due to  the fact that he has a deep respect for the loyalty, patriotism,  which the officers of the Armenian army live. At the same time, the  Armenian Minister expressed his conviction that this is a complex,  worthy profession and indeed, in comparison with other professions,  on average, the most consistent citizens are army officers. "As for  the relations between the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the  General Staff of Armenia, these are fictitious contradictions, since  they cannot be elementary, this would be the most dangerous  manifestation for the defense sphere." The first and most dangerous  if the minister Defense, and the Chief of the General Staff are  military.In this case, instead of the Minister of Defense and the  Chief of the General Staff, we will have the heads of two  headquarters, and natural competition will begin on the question of  whose influence on the troops is more effective and in accordance  with our Constitution, the chief military of the country is the chief  of the General Staff. There can not be any contradictions. The chief  of the General Staff can not effectively manage the troops if he does  not have complete confidence in the Minister of Defense and does not  trust the work that is carried out on the part of procurement,  military-political dialogue with other countries, the consolidation  of the role of the defense system in the state system of government,  without which the development of the Armed Forces is impossible,  "Sargsyan said, and in this context add That the Minister of Defense  can not be effective if it can not rely on a knowledgeable and able  chief of staff. The Minister believes that this is the axiom of the  management of the defense sphere.

Answering the question whether he is ready to send his one-party sons  to the advanced sons (the ruling Republican Party of Armenia-Ed.),  Sargsyan stated that neither his party members nor his colleagues  ever asked him to arrange his son in this or that military unit. "I  believe that this will be more clearly manifested in the course of  time, it is a long process, this is a task for a single day." This is  the task of forming a common atmosphere, including attitudes to  service, "the RA Defense Minister said.