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.