ArmInfo. During the current month, a report on the events of the April 2016 war will be submitted to the Speaker of Parliament. Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense and Security of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Andranik Kocharyan stated this in an interview with journalists.
He noted that the report is very voluminous. <The report will contain sections that contain highly classified information, but there will also be open sections. For my part, I will do everything possible so that the relatives of the victims have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with all the details presented in the report," Kocharyan said.
The head of the Committee stressed that at the beginning of the April war, the soldiers in the positions did not have a shortage of food and ammunition. <However, at a certain moment, a situation arose when in some positions the ability to shoot was limited. Why did it happen? We will give an answer to this and many other questions. I can say with confidence that we have found answers to a number of very important questions," the MP stressed.
The MP stressed that Serzh Sargsyan and other representatives of the then leadership of the country often raise the issue of violations in the work of the army. "But I do not understand why then President Sargsyan never once demanded that then leaders of the government Hovik Abrahamyan or Karen Karapetyan eliminated these shortcomings and violations ," he said.
At the same time, the head of the Committee stressed that in April 2016, officers and generals on the ground showed accuracy in decision-making, avoiding mistakes.
Kocharyan also noted that only based on the results of the final report, the public will have an opportunity to find out in which part of the four-day hostilities victories were recorded, and in which omissions, and whether the Armenian side solved the task set before it or not. To note, the parliamentary committee to investigate the circumstances of the April war in Karabakh was established in 2019. On June 4, 2020, the Committee completed its work. The Committee includes representatives of all factions of the National Assembly. The purpose of its work is to identify possible errors, shortcomings or inaction on the part of the then authorities during the above-mentioned period of aggravation of the situation on the border, which led to the death of over 100 Armenian servicemen.
The Committee was visited by third President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, ex-Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan, ex-Minister of Defense of Artsakh Levon Mnatsakanyan, Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Artak Davtyan, ex-Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandyan and ex-President of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan participated in the meetings of the commission via video communication, and former chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia, Yuri Khachaturov, refused to visit.