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    MIKAEL HARUTYUNIAN: ARMY IS NOT INVOLVED IN POLITICS

    YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 23, NOYAN TAPAN. No one will succeed in involving the
    army in political processes, the Armenian defence minister Mikael
    Harutyunian stated when responding to questions of reporters in
    Yerevan's Victory Park.

    As for the rumors that the deputy defence ministers Lieutenant General
    M. Grigorian and Lieutenant General G. Melkonian support the first
    Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian, M. Harutyunian said: "These
    rumors are not true, and all the deputy defence ministers are engaged
    in performance of their official duties. I urge everybody not to
    believe such provocative statements. The army is not involved in
    politics and performs its tasks. We have the supreme commander-in-chief
    and the defence minister whose orders are to be obeyed by everybody
    from soldiers to commanders and generals, including the deputy
    ministers".

    According to the RA Defence Ministry Information and Propaganda
    Department, the minister also said that those making such statements
    must be held accountable by law as nobody has the right to ignore the
    Constitution and laws. "Such provocative statements have already been
    refuted by the commanders of the armed forces: by the defence minister,
    his deputies and the head of the general staff," M. Harutyunian stated.
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