Vagharshak Harutyunyan: It was senseless to lose more soldiers for 5 kilometers (video)
Like Armenians, Azerbaijanis are also fighting with weapons and military hardware produced in the 80s, a former Defense Minister of Armenia said on April 25. “About 70 percent of their weapons were produced in the 1980s. But I do not think that if military hardware was produced in the 80s it necessary speaks to its poor quality,” Vagharshak Harutyunyan said today. In reply to a journalist’s observation that a ceasefire was announced at an inappropriate moment when the Armenian troops were going forward amid the escalation of the conflict, Mr Harutyunyan said ‘those are only emotional talks.’ “Many said the same thing in 1994 but when you consider the military aspect of the situation you understand that the agreement on ceasefire was a right decision then. As for the latest flare up of the violence, I must say that no one prevented us from advancing but it was senseless to lose more soldiers for 5 kilometers,” he said.
