The full text of the statement is below:
“Governed by the applicable provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia and the law of the Republic of Armenia ‘On Military Service and the Status of Servicemen’, a proposal for dismissing Onik Gasparyan, the chief of the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, was submitted to the President of the Republic by the Prime Minister on February 25, 2021 with an enclosed draft decree.
“The objections by the President of the Republic in connection with the above bill were entered into the database of the prime minister’s staff on February 27, 2021
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“The current situation is obviously the result of disagreements among political figures and the military in both the war and the post-war period, at times with strictly personalized .
14:58 • 27.02.21
The recent statement released by the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Armenia must be a wake-up call for the prime minister himself to push him to prompt action to handle the political crisis in Armenia, military expert Tigran Abrahamyan said on Facebook today, stressing the importance also of proper reactions by former defense officials.
In his public post shared on Saturday afternoon, Abrahamyan said he expects opinionated statements especially by two high-ranking servicemen: Artak Davtyan, a former chief of the General Headquarters (in the context of the recent war in Karabakh) and Jalal Harutyunyan, a former commander of the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Defense Army (for comments on the developments in the military between 2018-2020).