Arminfo, Armenia
Aug 24 2018


The head of General Staff: On April 2, 2016, 20-25 minutes after
announcement of Azeri attack on Artsakh, Yuri Khachaturov was at his
post

Yerevan August 24

Marianna Mkrtchyan. A copy of the official letter of the head of the
General Staff of Armenia Artak Davtyan to Yuri Khachaturov's lawyer
Grigory Bekmezyan appeared on the Internet to ask about the
whereabouts of Khachaturov during the attack of the Azerbaijani armed
forces in Artsakh in April 2016.

"Mr. Bekmezyan, in response to your request of August 3, 2018 August,
I inform you that on April 2, 2016 Yuri Khachaturov, who then held the
post of Chief of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, received a
report on the attack of the enemy - the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, in
20-25 minutes, around 03: 10-03: 15:00 I arrived at the place of
service and managed the Armed Forces of the RA directly from my
control point .I inform you that copies of the originals of these
documents can not be provided to you because they contain secret
information, " Davtyan Bekmezyan's answer says.

After the April war in the society, information was spread that the
current CSTO Secretary-General, Yuri Khachaturov, who previously held
the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia,
drank whiskey in the billiard room during the attack of the
Azerbaijani Armed Forces and did not appear on his post on time.