Recently, in a conversation with a journalist, the NKR Defense Minister Movses Hakobyan stated that Levon Ter-Petrossyan visited Artsakh for the first time only in 1996, i.e. two years after the signing of the armistice. To this respect, in the interview with Aravot.am, ANC MP Lyudmila Sargsyan answering Movses Hakobyan said: “I would like to continue my respect to Karabakh, NKR defense army, especially their leaders. But what the NKR Defense Minister said, I think, it’s a little immoral. First of all, we are talking about a president who a winning president. His every time visit to Karabakh not necessarily be covered. Naturally, it is not covered, because we were not considered a conflicting party during those years. Karabakh and Azerbaijan were in the war as parties of conflict.
The presence of the President of Armenia over there would become another opportunity. We know very well what kind of diplomacy Levon Ter-Petrosyan conducted, what efforts he applied that we have the chance to celebrate the victory today. It is also immoral that
many-many of our heroes next to Levon Ter-Petrosyan does not have the title of a hero, to which he deserves the very best. All those who blah and gossip, they simply manifest immoral behavior, and try to destroy the deposit, which has Levon Ter-Petrosyan in our victory. Of course, they will not succeed, because the story that was created by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, is impossible to destroy. Centuries later nobody will cared about them, but Levon Ter-Petrosyan will enter the history as the first founder president and the only winning president over the centuries, during which we managed to win and take back lands.
Finally, let us understand that the values that we had in the 90s and gained as a result of the victory, it was a victory for all of us and the values of all of us. If we want to have an efficient army and guys at the moment of the danger that were in the early 90s, then we should not destroy what has really created with a lot of difficulty in those years, including the first input of the President.” Why the Defense Minister talk about it years after, and made such a statement, Lyudmila commented: “If people, years after, refer again to years of war, post-war period, and the first founder President, it speaks of only one thing: Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s factor still continues working, and they have set a goal to weaken this factor.”
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Hripsimeh JEBEJYAN
