ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY TERMS A WEEKLY’S REPORT AS "BLATANT LIE"

Armenpress
Nov 07 2006

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian defense ministry
has denied today a report placed by the weekly Iravunk, run by the
Constitutional Right Union opposition party, which claimed as if
the ministry’s governing board had convened an emergency meeting on
November 4 to discuss defense minister Serzh Sarkisian’s political
agenda.

A brief press release by the defense ministry, disseminated today to
all Armenian media outlets, said the report that appeared in today’s
issue of the weekly, was inconsistent with reality.

The ministry said no emergency meeting had been held on November 4. It
said also the report in the weekly claiming this was ‘a concoction
and a blatant lie."

The ministry’s press release said, " The defense ministry has said
on various occasions and many times that the Armenian army is an
apolitical body that does not meddle in political processes."