“We accept the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and this has been confirmed since the ‘90s. When the Artsakh movement started, we went through several stages, and now the question is whether we made the right turn or not,” said Andranik Kocharyan, chairman of the National Defense and Security Affairs Committee.
Andranik Kocharyan said that we are accused of having a Russian model army. “What do you think, was there an opportunity and it was not used? Wouldn’t any government, even Serzh Sargsyan’s, use it if they had the opportunity to acquire other weapons from another environment? In the ‘90s, we got the legacy of the Soviet Union.
We got the 7th army with its weapons. Azerbaijan got the 4th army, which was a little more armed. But life forced us to deviate from the Soviet model. Life forced us to switch to the NATO model, what Russia is doing now. We went from the static state of divisions to independent battalions, where the detachments had to become military units, that is, to create automatically controlled rings that were easy to control – corps, etc.
Then at some point we decided: this is it, let’s sit down, put down our weapons. Even I’m telling you a secret: during the war, there was no decision to take them out of the barracks until the 26th of the month.”
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