“The strongest aspect of the current rulers of Armenia is their lack of shame. They can look into the other person’s eyes without a hint of shame and lie,” said the 3rd President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, in a press conference, referring to the statement made by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the last press conference, in which Pashinyan was responding to Sargsyan’s statement that in recent years, Armenia has hardly received a weapon. “It’s a blatant lie,” Sargsyan responded to Pashinyan.
“They only told two truths, more specifically, not truths, but two statements by which they were guided. First, they said they would make themselves crazy and grossly destroy the Madrid principles and would not be guided by those principles, which they did. Second, on the first day of the war, they announced that no matter what happened, they would not consider themselves defeated.
And look at what disasters those two statements brought to our country,” the 3rd President of RA. Sargsyan said regarding the acquisition of weapons: “Without revealing too much, I will say the following: in the years he mentioned, we probably used more ammunition for combat training than they acquired during those two years. I want to remind those who are either ignorant or have memory loss at that time; that we had the only S-300 divisions in the region, we already had long-range missiles, we acquired more than 100 heavy armored vehicles during that time, we had to bring hundreds of modern anti-aircraft defenses, we have acquired tens of thousands of large-caliber ammunition, we have acquired more than 100 million firearms ammunition alone. Not to mention Iskander and other weapons. And what did they obtain- three planes that didn’t help?”
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According to the former President, instead of saying something abstract, the government can present how much weaponry the former government has acquired in 10 or 20 years and how much the current government has acquired: “A literate person, who has some knowledge of military affairs, knows very well how to compare munitions and weapons. The truth is that yes, in 2018-2020, more money has been allocated to defense annually, but have these allocated funds been used for their purpose or wasted? I can only say one thing, yes, especially in 8,9 (it is not clear which years he means: 2008-2009 or 2018-2019, NB), and before that, we had much smaller opportunities to make net purchases, but we also had great options, and these opportunities were used to the end to receive military-technical support.”
Nelly BABAYAN
