The friends in combat and former soldiers of the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Onik Gasparyan, as well as private citizens, gathered by the Ministry of Defense in support of the colonel general.
“It is the demand of around 80 percent of society for the Prime Minister and inept government that signed the disgraceful capitulation agreement to resign. We have heroic soldiers who are defending the borders of our country and our Armenian statehood right now. Today, they want to forcibly remove the chief of the General Staff and its leadership, among whom includes national heroes. Fine, when will this nation finally understand that heroes have to be treated as they deserve, generals as they deserve, and villagers as they deserve. They didn’t leave us with anything; they destroyed everything. They destroyed the church and now they have moved on to the army? But all of us need to understand that our nation should not come to an end. Why should the leader of our enemy nation announce to the whole world that, allegedly Yerevan and Sevan belong to them, and Syunik is allegedly ‘historical Azerbaijani territory?’ And the political leadership of Armenia is not contesting this whatsoever. So, what is the purpose of deputies and the members of government? No one stood up and contested by saying, ‘Hey, what are you doing? Who are you to make statements like that?’ We are losing our homeland. We gave our country to pro-Soros groups. Look at the heroic people gathered here. All of them are heroic and honest people who fought for Armenia by risking their lives and who lost friends. We have always been with our army and we always will be. We will never allow anyone to destroy our army,” Colonel Aghabek Asatryan told Aravot Daily in an interview.
Ashot Hakobyan
