ArmInfo. On December 20, in an interview with journalists, Acting Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan addressed to the statements he had made in the past about the new adviser to the Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan Arshak Karapetyan after his appointment as a military attache at the Armenian Embassy in Russia.
"If you watched the video in full, then I thought it was not strange (appointment ed.), I found it strange that someone was not punished because of the April events. I presented it as interesting information, "said Harutyunyan. To note that he doesn't see any contradictions between the statements he made in the past about Arshak Karapetyan and his current appointment, Harutyunyan stressed that the Acting Prime Minister addressed this issue yesterday. According to him, Arayik Harutyunyan is satisfied with these clarifications.
According to the Acting head of the Ministry of Education and Science, in fact, in the video, he literally said: "There is interesting information, the head of the intelligence department, who was sent to the island during the April war, was again appointed military attache at the Armenian Embassy in Russia, the information is very interesting. It is very strange that after the April events, someone was not punished and was not brought to justice. Earlier it was reported that appeared in social networks video, in which the current acting. Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan and Acting Education and Science Minister Arayik Harutyunyan is talking about Arshak Karapetyan, believing that he was a fiasco during the April war.
To recall, by the decree of former President Serzh Sargsyan of April 26, 2016, immediately after the four- day war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Deputy Minister of Defense – Head of the Logistics Department Alik Mirzabekyan, Head of the General Staff Arshak Karapetyan's Intelligence Department and Head of Troops Communications – Head of Communications and Automated Control Systems Department Komitas Muradyan were dismissed from their posts. There were no official comments on the reasons for the reshuffle. But Armenian experts explained the resignation by the authorities' desire to mitigate the discontent that followed the four-day war. So, after the hostilities in early April 2016, much was said that the material and technical support of the Armenian army was extremely unsatisfactory: according to some information, sometimes even there was not enough ammunition. It was also said that the offensive, which was prepared by the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, was not identified on time. However, already in February 2018 he was appointed military attache at the Armenian Embassy in Russia
Yesterday appeal to the appointment of Arshak Karapetyan as advisor to the head of government; the Acting Prime Minister said that the secret material about the April war is not a word about the lack of intelligence materials. Answering the question that the same Karapetyan, in accordance with secret order 0038, was also involved in the events of March 1, 2008, Pashinyan noted that, in accordance with this order, a very large part of the SC was involved in these events: "Now we don't can separate this part from the sun? " However, he stressed that all those whom the investigation finds guilty will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Touching upon the accusations of his comrades-in-arms, now ministers made before the revolution to the past authorities that Karapetyan after the April war could not be appointed military attache in the Armenian diplomatic department in Russia, Pashinyan stressed that all statements made by his colleagues and himself were before the revolution, are not a sentence. At the same time, Pashinyan questioned the justice of Karapetyan's dismissal after the April events. "I read hundreds of pages of secret materials about the April war, and, in fact, I can say that we didn't have a shortage of intelligence materials. We have a lot of questions about the April war that should be answered and, as far as possible, should be presented to the society ", – Pashinyan assured, stressing that many knew about the accumulation of Azerbaijani troops around the perimeter of the front line until the April war:" But I will refrain from assessing. "