On September 20th Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan received participants of the 5th All-Armenian Forum Armenia-Diaspora.
The Minister proposed two formulas of cooperation: “1. If necessary, to turn the army into a 10 million nation-wide army, and 2. Establish a sound security system, where each person with his work can help neutralize the dangers. Armenia is our centre, here we get united, that’s why applying educational, scientific, financial, moral support of Diaspora, we must make sure that the threat evaporated before reaching the spot”.

On the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of independence of the Republic of Armenia Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan met with faculty and students of the State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi. He presented the work done in the RA Armed Forces in 2014 and mentioned that the focus has been and remains on a full Border Service and to make combat duty safer.

Today in our country, the army is the most organized, the most established structure. Now Azerbaijan has a new tactics, it discredits Armenia in front of the international community speaking about Armenia’s difficult economic situation, poverty, migration. However all know that on the issues of democracy and human rights protection Azerbaijan cannot be compared with Armenia, more over – with Karabakh. Armenia and Karabakh with all their shortcomings are thousand times closer to the model of democratic states than Azerbaijan, where Aliyev is a president till the end of his life, where there are political prisoners.

Senior Lieutenant Andranik Kocharyan is 23, he is the peer of independence. He is in service only 2 years but he has entrusted the duties of the company commander in one of the southern military units of the NKR Army of Defense. He has already managed to get medals “For military duty” and “For Valour”, out of turn was promoted to Senior Lieutenant. Strongholds under his command carry out combat duty at a distance of a few tens of meters from the enemy positions.

How many generations dreamed about independence, how many people put their heads in the name of this idea, how many brave Armenian warriors served in other armies and dreamed of their army, to give their knowledge, experience and courage to the service of their own army. Now this dream has fulfilled.