We live in a rather difficult region, and I’m just convinced that in this region either you have to be a factor, or the British say good things: if you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu. This was stated by the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan at a meeting with students and teachers of the Armenian University.:

“To be a factor, we must have a combat-ready army. To have a combat-ready army, we must also have military and political allies, we are not China or Russia. These issues need to be resolved very quickly. If we don’t restore this, we will be on the menu in this region. And every unstable situation in this region will create great risks for us, very great risks, and the temptation to seize Syunik for Azerbaijan will be very great. And there is a danger in this. And in connection with Syunik, and in connection with a piece of Sevan. We want this. During the elections of the 21st, I was asked a lot, but how many years does it take to rebuild the army? I say 3-5 years, it’s been 4. I don’t see anything being done. When they tell me that they are delivering artillery or some kind of rocket from India, I have a question, how then can I provide this with ammunition? And they take what they can’t bring. Who! Something is here, something from one place, something from another. And the most interesting thing is, do you know what it is? If you remember, they were publicly accused., What kind of weapons were used to fight in the 80s? Look at the war in Ukraine: the weapons of the 60s, 70s, 80s are, in fact, the most reliable weapons. We lost to the Bayraktars during this war. With the same capabilities of the Russian air defense in Ukraine, all bayraktars were shot down and destroyed in 2 weeks. We only heard about bayraktars during the first 2-3 weeks of the war, because they were big, they were caught by radars, small ones did not catch radars, but they were big, slow-moving, 150, 160 km/h. Who was the one that happened, which is exactly what happened. We had to solve the bayraktar problem within the first 2 weeks and finish it. How did it happen? One of the reasons for this is that I said so. The army was in the process of “clubbing” reforms. The air defense did not work. Why didn’t they shut off all the air? Because they changed the order of the air defense, acquired Su, which they did not use at all, but took good selfies against their background. Is it necessary to talk about this now or not? Now they are buying 185-mm artillery, the warhead of which costs 4000-5000 dollars. At some point, the price jumped to 7,000-8,000. The cheapest is 3000. Who do you imagine yourself to be, How much should you bring, and how should you bring it then? There is no way to bring it. There are things that people do, and from time to time you ask yourself the question: do these people even think that you don’t have the ability to think? Then how are you going to solve these issues, something from India, something from France? To be honest, I don’t understand what his service will be like? The war in Ukraine has shown that the so-called “Caesar”, which was ordered by France, is a good artillery, extremely thin. In such a combat condition, it is impossible to repair, as soon as it goes out of order a little, it is taken to an unknown place for repairs. You are creating this database, if you don’t create, they don’t create. There is some kind of budget that they have to spend, what they spend on, who buys, who buys. The question now is: a combat-ready army, military and political allies, relations with which must be restored, and, of course, the level of economic development. I am concerned that there has been almost no foreign investment in Armenia in recent years. What is the reason for this? They opened a lot of factories, none of them were working. It turned out that there were none. It was just PR, something was being opened for filming, nothing worked. Now, or are we becoming a purely service country, service area. This service sector also has a limit,

You don’t have the sea. No steps have been taken to develop production capabilities. That has to change. I can’t even say what the first step should be, it’s a security issue. If you don’t solve the security issue, all other issues become risky,” the second president said.:

We live in a rather difficult region, and I’m just convinced that in this region either you have to be a factor, or the British say good things: if you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu. This was stated by the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan at a meeting with students and teachers of the Armenian University.:

“To be a factor, we must have a combat-ready army. To have a combat-ready army, we must also have military and political allies, we are not China or Russia. These issues need to be resolved very quickly. If we don’t restore this, we will be on the menu in this region. And every unstable situation in this region will create great risks for us, very great risks, and the temptation to seize Syunik for Azerbaijan will be very great. And there is a danger in this. And in connection with Syunik, and in connection with a piece of Sevan. We want this. During the elections of the 21st, I was asked a lot, but how many years does it take to rebuild the army? I say 3-5 years, it’s been 4. I don’t see anything being done. When they tell me that they are delivering artillery or some kind of rocket from India, I have a question, how then can I provide this with ammunition? And they take what they can’t bring. Who! Something is here, something from one place, something from another. And the most interesting thing is, do you know what it is? If you remember, they were publicly accused., What kind of weapons were used to fight in the 80s? Look at the war in Ukraine: the weapons of the 60s, 70s, 80s are, in fact, the most reliable weapons. We lost to the Bayraktars during this war. With the same capabilities of the Russian air defense in Ukraine, all bayraktars were shot down and destroyed in 2 weeks. We only heard about bayraktars during the first 2-3 weeks of the war, because they were big, they were caught by radars, small ones did not catch radars, but they were big, slow-moving, 150, 160 km/h. Who was the one that happened, which is exactly what happened. We had to solve the bayraktar problem within the first 2 weeks and finish it. How did it happen? One of the reasons for this is that I said so. The army was in the process of “clubbing” reforms. The air defense did not work. Why didn’t they shut off all the air? Because they changed the order of the air defense, acquired Su, which they did not use at all, but took good selfies against their background. Is it necessary to talk about this now or not? Now they are buying 185-mm artillery, the warhead of which costs 4000-5000 dollars. At some point, the price jumped to 7,000-8,000. The cheapest is 3000. Who do you imagine yourself to be, How much should you bring, and how should you bring it then? There is no way to bring it. There are things that people do, and from time to time you ask yourself the question: do these people even think that you don’t have the ability to think? Then how are you going to solve these issues, something from India, something from France? To be honest, I don’t understand what his service will be like? The war in Ukraine has shown that the so-called “Caesar”, which was ordered by France, is a good artillery, extremely thin. In such a combat condition, it is impossible to repair, as soon as it goes out of order a little, it is taken to an unknown place for repairs. You are creating this database, if you don’t create, they don’t create. There is some kind of budget that they have to spend, what they spend on, who buys, who buys. The question now is: a combat-ready army, military and political allies, relations with which must be restored, and, of course, the level of economic development. I am concerned that there has been almost no foreign investment in Armenia in recent years. What is the reason for this? They opened a lot of factories, none of them were working. It turned out that there were none. It was just PR, something was being opened for filming, nothing worked. Now, or are we becoming a purely service country, service area. This service sector also has a limit,

You don’t have the sea. No steps have been taken to develop production capabilities. That has to change. I can’t even say what the first step should be, it’s a security issue. If you don’t solve the security issue, all other issues become risky,” the second president said.:

We live in a rather difficult region, and I’m just convinced that in this region either you have to be a factor, or the British say good things: if you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu. This was stated by the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan at a meeting with students and teachers of the Armenian University.:

“To be a factor, we must have a combat-ready army. To have a combat-ready army, we must also have military and political allies, we are not China or Russia. These issues need to be resolved very quickly. If we don’t restore this, we will be on the menu in this region. And every unstable situation in this region will create great risks for us, very great risks, and the temptation to seize Syunik for Azerbaijan will be very great. And there is a danger in this. And in connection with Syunik, and in connection with a piece of Sevan. We want this. During the elections of the 21st, I was asked a lot, but how many years does it take to rebuild the army? I say 3-5 years, it’s been 4. I don’t see anything being done. When they tell me that they are delivering artillery or some kind of rocket from India, I have a question, how then can I provide this with ammunition? And they take what they can’t bring. Who! Something is here, something from one place, something from another. And the most interesting thing is, do you know what it is? If you remember, they were publicly accused., What kind of weapons were used to fight in the 80s? Look at the war in Ukraine: the weapons of the 60s, 70s, 80s are, in fact, the most reliable weapons. We lost to the Bayraktars during this war. With the same capabilities of the Russian air defense in Ukraine, all bayraktars were shot down and destroyed in 2 weeks. We only heard about bayraktars during the first 2-3 weeks of the war, because they were big, they were caught by radars, small ones did not catch radars, but they were big, slow-moving, 150, 160 km/h. Who was the one that happened, which is exactly what happened. We had to solve the bayraktar problem within the first 2 weeks and finish it. How did it happen? One of the reasons for this is that I said so. The army was in the process of “clubbing” reforms. The air defense did not work. Why didn’t they shut off all the air? Because they changed the order of the air defense, acquired Su, which they did not use at all, but took good selfies against their background. Is it necessary to talk about this now or not? Now they are buying 185-mm artillery, the warhead of which costs 4000-5000 dollars. At some point, the price jumped to 7,000-8,000. The cheapest is 3000. Who do you imagine yourself to be, How much should you bring, and how should you bring it then? There is no way to bring it. There are things that people do, and from time to time you ask yourself the question: do these people even think that you don’t have the ability to think? Then how are you going to solve these issues, something from India, something from France? To be honest, I don’t understand what his service will be like? The war in Ukraine has shown that the so-called “Caesar”, which was ordered by France, is a good artillery, extremely thin. In such a combat condition, it is impossible to repair, as soon as it goes out of order a little, it is taken to an unknown place for repairs. You are creating this database, if you don’t create, they don’t create. There is some kind of budget that they have to spend, what they spend on, who buys, who buys. The question now is: a combat-ready army, military and political allies, relations with which must be restored, and, of course, the level of economic development. I am concerned that there has been almost no foreign investment in Armenia in recent years. What is the reason for this? They opened a lot of factories, none of them were working. It turned out that there were none. It was just PR, something was being opened for filming, nothing worked. Now, or are we becoming a purely service country, service area. This service sector also has a limit,

You don’t have the sea. No steps have been taken to develop production capabilities. That has to change. I can’t even say what the first step should be, it’s a security issue. If you don’t solve the security issue, all other issues become risky,” the second president said.: