MOVSES HAKOBYAN: YERKRAPAH UNION MEMBERS KNOW HOW TO WIN

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.02.2010 20:17 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Unity between Yerkrapah Volunteers Union members
is of major importance in view of high possibility for hostilities’
resumption in Karabakh, Commander of the NKR Defense Army, Movses
Hakobyan said.

"Yerkrapah members have been through the war and know how to win,"
he said at the 8th union congress Tuesday, February 16.

"The Union must play a significant role in the military and patriotic
training of rising generation," Commander of the NKR Defense Army
believes.

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out in
1988, as result of the ethnic cleansing the latter launched in the
final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from
1991 (when the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed) to 1994
(when a ceasefire was sealed by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan). Most
of Nagorno Karabakh and a security zone consisting of 7 regions is
now under control of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are
holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.