SERGE SARGSIAN: IN TWO YEARS ARMENIAN ARMY TO BE COMPLETELY RECRUITED
WITH OFFICERS WITH HIGHER EDUCATION

YEREVAN, JULY 4, NOYAN TAPAN. Other two years, and the army of Armenia
will completely be recruited with officers with higher education.

Serge Sargsian, the RA Defence Minister expressed such a confidence,
making a speech before graduaing students of the Military Institute
after Vazgen Sargsian on July 1. “We have dreamed of this for 15
years, and I believe that we are already reaching our aim,” Serge
Sargsian emphasized. The Minister attached importance to the
circumstance that the officers’ ranks of the Armenian army are
recruited with more than 400 young men on the account of this year
graduating students of the Military Institute having acted already for
few years. According to the Defence Minister, today there are two
difficult but soluble problems arisen before the Armenian army: the
first one is to keep and strengthen the fighting ability, “giving the
authorities of the country possibility to hold honourable negotiations
with our opponents and reach a beneficial solution of the Karabakh
issue for our people,” and the second is to yield to armies of
developed countries in nothing. Serge Sargsian mentioned that there is
a task to create such an army till 2015.