The delegation headed by Seyran Ohnayan, Defense Minister was on a two-day working visit in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
On November 26, Seyran Ohanyan met with the leadership of ISAF at its headquarters in Kabul. British Lieutenant-General Nick Carter, Deputy Commander of ISAF highly appreciated Armenia’s contribution to the establishment of security and stability in Afghanistan, expressing his gratitude to Armenian peacekeepers for their professionalism and commitment to mission goals.

It is intended to build churches in all the regiments to fulfill spiritual requirements of the servicemen. This process has already started. On December 1st in the Military Institute after V.Sargsyan church foundation’s consecration ceremony was held which was conducted by RA AF spiritual head Vrtanes Bishop Abrahamyan.

The book’s authors are scholars, S.Lornejad from USA and A.Doostzadeh from Canada. In this monography they analyze how incorrectly the Azeris comment on the literary heritage of prominent Medieval Persian poet Nizami Gyanjavi. This started in 1930-s in the Soviet Union after the functions dedicated to the 800-th anniversary of Nizami. They even “found” and published so called “Nizami Gyanjavi’s Turkish Collection”. Falsifiers doctored of poems in Turkish language to the Persian poet whereas in his rich literary heritage even with a loupe you can’t find a single line in Turkish or other dialect.

In the national army the final exams session has started. Committees of Defense Ministry and General Staff, military units and regiments assess the regiments’ operational training level. Looking back to the 2012 education process, military exercises and trainings, we can say with certainty that this year was rather effective in strengthening of troops’ battle efficiency. Yet in spring all the regiments conducted field trainings. Afterwards military exercises of CSTO Collective Forces of Operative Reaction were conducted in the firing grounds of Defense Ministry. Subsequently staff-command strategic all-army trainings were conducted.

On November 27th in the big hall of the Writers’ Union presentation of Aspram Tsarukyan’s 2-volume book “For Your Immortality…” was held. The book is dedicated to the perished soldiers of the Artsakh war. War participants, perished soldiers’ mothers, writers, journalists, servicemen, public figures were present.

The myth about Azerbaijan petroleum gradually vanishes. In the so called “petroleum country” there will be no oil any more. The Azeris presented petroleum waste products as petroleum, and on that fraud Baku-Jeyhan pipeline was constructed. The West now has no intention to be cheated any more.

On November 15th 33 officers of one of the Kotayk district’s regiments celebrated house-warming. Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan himself handed over the keys of 1-, 2- and 3-room apartments to them.