Tuesday, March 9 2021 12:06

ArmInfo. "I fully understand the outrage of the highest command of the Armed Forces, the position of the army on interference in political processes, which go beyond  its competence, the reason for which it was nothing but a careless  attempt to the Prime Minister to dump responsibility for the  humiliating defeat on the army, "the first president of Armenia Levon  Ter-Petrosyan wrote on the website of Ilur.am.

He welcomed the restrained behavior of the military in response to  the calls of some forces to incitement and unconstitutional actions.   "I consider this behavior of the army by an exemplary manifestation  of state thinking by the leadership of GS, the desire to protect the  country from destructive shocks, which deserves sincere appreciation  of the whole of our people, "the article Levon Ter-Petrosyan said.

At the same time, the first President of RA considers irresponsible  statements by some politicians extremely dangerous and reprehensible,  Based on the successful examples of some countries (South Korea,  Egypt), to present a military coup as a positive path to the recovery  of the state. "Of course, there are such examples, but ten times more  cases, when the coups, becoming periodic, literally led to the  destruction of the state and the suffering of peoples (Afghanistan,  Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Libya, Somalia, Iraq,  Syria, Lebanon, and others .). Therefore, the debt of all Armenians  is to be guided exclusively by this consciousness, to do everything  so that Armenia does not get into the list of mentioned states,  "Levon Tere Petrosyan stressed.

Note that in Armenia was aggravated by the internal political crisis  after the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces on February 25.   I demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol  Pashinyan, stating that the political leadership leads the state to a  dangerous face. In response, the Prime Minister announced a coup and  signed a decision on the dismissal of Onik Gasparyan from the  position of head of the GS. However, President Armen Sargsyan did not  sign this document and with objections sent a statement to the  premiere apparatus. The head of government re-sent a document to the  President, after which Armen Sargsyan appealed on this issue to the  Constitutional Court. By law, Gasparyan until March 9 continues to  fulfill his duties as head of the General Staff.