Recently, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that we lost the war of 2020 because the “5th column” operated in the army. During the question-and-answer session between the Government and the National Assembly, Andranik Kocharyan, deputy of the Civil Contract faction, wondered whether it was a feeling or a statement based on facts.
Nikol Pashinyan first mentioned seeing a report about a criminal case the other day. “It is about the fact that the Azerbaijani side attacked and took the hill, and the Armenian side made a counterattack and took the hill back. A senior military officer charged in a criminal case is accused of overstepping his authority and saying, “Get back down from that occupied height, leave it… And this is not the problem, but the fact that every action must have an explanation, a reason. In other words, the hill was taken back, but he insisted that it was not, that it should be returned. There is no explanation as to why it is returned.” Pashinyan said that according to his information, such situations can still become the subject of reports.
“When a high-ranking military officer spread panic among the troops, he instructed his subordinates to cause panic so that everyone should leave their positions. Or he provided conditions for the enemy to occupy territories without any complications. Then he accepts the sin. But why did you do that? ” According to Pashinyan, his explanation for all this is as follows.
“Could these people be agents of another country?” Can they be recruited? Or they must have received an order from above, and I did not give such an order; therefore, there is an order from somewhere else. Otherwise, he would have said: the Prime Minister ordered, and I carried it out. But there is none.” Pashinyan also expressed the opinion that the target of the 44-day war was not Nagorno-Karabakh but Armenia and its sovereignty. Referring to the Azerbaijani provocation of April 11, Nikol Pashinyan described the actions in which the claim that “the government should resign immediately” was the “5th column”.
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Luiza SUKIASYAN
