NAGORNO-KARABAKH DEFENSE MINISTRY PRESS-SERVICE: ATTEMPTS OF AZERBAIJANI PROPAGANDA TO DISCREDIT NKR DEFENSE ARMY IS NONSENSE

ArmInfo
2009-03-23 20:39:00

ArmInfo. Head of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Ministry press-service,
Lieutenant Colonel Senor Hasratyan condemned the statement published
by Baku-based Day.az (with reference to Azeri Defense Ministry
press-service) that the Armenian military servicemen Hrant Markosyan,
Rafik Tevosyan and Vardevan Sargsyan currently being in Azeri captivity
have allegedly complained of the unbearable situation in the army.

As ArmInfo own correspondent in Stepanakert reported, Senor Hasratyan
qualified the Azeri propaganda machine’s attempt to discredit the NKR
Defense Army as nonsense. Hasratyan said that the NKR Defense Army
not only won the war waged by Azerbaijan, but today it confidently
ensures peace in the region under the conditions of the unresolved
conflict. In connection with the incident, a special commission
was set up to conduct investigation in the military unit where the
specified soldiers served. In course of studying the situation and
conversation with the servicemen, the commission revealed no reasons
for which the soldiers went over to the rival’s side.

According to the commission’s conclusion, the servicemen left
the military unit willfully without thinking that they might find
themselves on the opposite side. They had served only for three months
and they lost their way as they didn’t know the locality. Their fellow
servicemen also think that the specified soldiers found themselves
on the rival’s side unconsciously and gave their testimony under the
pressure of Azeri special services which did their best to defame the
NKR Defense Army. They pointed out that all conditions are created
in the military unit for normal servicemen.