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Marianna Mkrtchyan

Confrontation between Armenian Defense Ministry and Andranik  Kocharian continues to gain momentum

Confrontation between Armenian Defense Ministry and Andranik  Kocharian continues to gain momentum

ArmInfo.The confrontation between the Armenian Defense Ministry and the chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security Andranik Kocharian  continues to gain momentum.

Thus, in today's statement of the Armenian defense ministry received  by ArmInfo, it is noted that with incomprehensible consistency and  determination Andranik Kocharian continues his absolutely unfounded,  unfounded and testifying to complete ignorance of the sphere or  tendentious attacks on the Armenian army, the actions of the Ministry  of Defense and the General Staff of the Armed Forces during the war  and a number of related topics, some of which, by the way, are  secret. "Unfortunately, we have several times had a reason to refer  to the public statements of Mr. Kocharyan, which use absolutely  unacceptable and unacceptable for a person holding a high state  position of the expression" there is no army as such, these are armed  people "," flightless air force commander "or" fisherman's clothes  "But instead of drawing the necessary conclusions, asking forgiveness  for the extremely offensive statements about the army, a soldier and  an officer, numerous civil servants of the Ministry of Defense, this  gentleman continues his explicit and purposeful campaign.

In particular, Mr. Kocharian, a few days earlier, in an interview  with one of the media, answering a journalist's question: "It seems  that you want to scapegoat David Tonoyan, what is Tonoyan's fault?",  Literally answers the following: "But who says David Tonoyan is  guilty, there are different levels of guilty.  David Tonoyan is  guilty because he is the Minister of Defense. And that now nobody is  guilty, David Tonoyan is not guilty, other ministers are not guilty?  " That is, Mr. Kocharian states that he has no real grounds for  bringing any accusations against the Minister of Defense, and that  his entire campaign is carried out purely "by eye" with the  conviction that if something happened, then who something must be to  blame, "the Defense Ministry stressed.

At the same time, the Armenian Ministry of Defense stated that if the  author of such statements were a random person, then everything would  be clear. The defense ministry believes that such statements from the  mouth of an official holding the post of chairman of the NA Standing  Committee on Defense and Security Issues are extremely perplexing.

At the same time, the RA Ministry of Defense indicated that Mr.  Kocharian is taking steps that contain a real threat and cause very  serious concern.

"For example, instead of discussing in the Ministry of Defense with  the Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed  Forces, Colonel-General Onik Gasparyan the paramount questions  concerning the applicability of the Su-30-SM aircraft, Mr. Kocharyan  publicly asks questions, the answers to which, in this case The same  applies to electronic warfare means. Is this evidence that the  official is not in his place, does not own the sphere? What does  Andranik Kocharyan expect, voicing questions, the answers to which  are secret? Is this an elementary and cheap manipulation or, at  least, by an absolutely unacceptable provocation to force the defense  department to reveal facts beneficial exclusively to the enemy? What  is the task pursued by Andranik Kocharyan, consistently making  statements that are insulting to the entire army, which, by the way,  at this stage, is solving extremely important tasks related to the  restoration of forces and resources, regrouping, creating new  infrastructures, increasing combat capability to a new level.  The  Ministry of Defense, analyzing soberly and in detail all the public  statements of Andranik Kocharian in recent days, gradually comes to  the conclusion that this official has absolutely no control over the  area under his coordination in parliament, does not have sufficient  knowledge about the defense system, does not understand the  boundaries of state secrets and restrictions arising from this and  takes actions that, by and large, jeopardize the security of our  state. In accordance with this, the Ministry of Defense is  considering the possibility of addressing the NA President with a  request to discuss the expediency of Kocharian's tenure as chairman  of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security Issues, as well  as to the NA Ethics Commission in connection with public statements  containing a clear insult, " stated in the statement of the Ministry  of Defense of Armenia. 

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