"Army is their personal garden"
Chairman of the NA committee on foreign relations Armen Rustamyan is not optimistic toward the working meeting of the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian Foreign Ministers held yesterday in Moscow within the framework of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.
"There are always expectations before the meetings, but one thing is clear-there cannot be a word about the solution to the issue as long as the main reason for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has not been revealed and the issue is the status of Nagorno-Karabakh," Mr. Rustamyan told "A1+". He considers the intermediaries' announcements according to which the sides must sign a document on the issues agreed upon and continue negotiations on other issues as inacceptable.
"That will be the biggest error. Armenia cannot reject the package solution in any case. Even if the sides don't agree upon any issue, it means they haven't agreed upon anything," said Rustamyan.
According to Armen Rustamyan, the latest tragic events that led to deaths in the army will have a direct impact on the process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement. "Armenia is in a war that has not ended. The Armenian army must be in a situation in which an attack doesn't even cross the enemy's mind, but there are clashes in the army."
Rustamyan says it is impossible to eliminate radicalized negative phenomena only through cadre reforms. "I regret to see that the government is not taking those cases seriously. If things continue like this, the Armenian army may turn into a bandit organization with the development of certain phenomena that characterize the criminal world. Today we are presenting legislative reforms in relation to the army, but they have nothing to do with the reality and don't function in the army. The lowest levels of the command don't view the army as a combative mechanism and have turned it into their personal fields."
Armen Rustamyan finds that the families of soldiers should also fight against irregular relations.
