Today, the threat of war is permanent for Armenia. This is what secretary of the Executive Body of the opposition National Agenda Party Ara Gasparyan told reporters today.

Gasparyan stressed the need for strengthening of the lines of defense in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), and the solution to the issue related to replenishment of the Defense Army (on the backdrop of Azerbaijan’s active counterinfluence), but the authorities don’t want to deal with these issues and aren’t capable of dealing with them.

“What’s more, the authorities led the country to this situation with their actions. The second issue for my political party is the existence of agents in Armenia who have been discrediting the army and power structures and releasing information from Armenia for years. The people were not only defeated on the battlefield, but were also prepared for defeat through split in society. The incumbent authorities did all this with the help of those agents, preparing us for defeat and ‘peaceful coexistence’,” the politician stated.

According to him, this attests to the fact that the authorities are serving the interests of Turkey and Azerbaijan. “Now, amid the military exercises in Nakhchivan and on the border of Armenia, the authorities are still trying to convince people that there is no threat. Turkey is on the path to implementation of its neo-Ottoman plan and hasn’t changed, and Armenia must not fall in its trap,” he added.