Sargsyan: The Minister and owner of the Defense Ministry should always be a minister, and woe to the country where it is not so
ArmInfo. The owner and the owner of the Ministry of Defense should always be the head of the defense department, and woe to the country where it is not so. Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan said in an interview with Shant TV.
At the same time, he stated that his relations with servicemen both during this year, and much earlier, during the work in the office of the President of Armenia, and during the service in the Ministry of Defense have always been brilliant. According to him, this is due to the fact that he has a deep respect for the loyalty, patriotism, which the officers of the Armenian army live. At the same time, the Armenian Minister expressed his conviction that this is a complex, worthy profession and indeed, in comparison with other professions, on average, the most consistent citizens are army officers. "As for the relations between the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff of Armenia, these are fictitious contradictions, since they cannot be elementary, this would be the most dangerous manifestation for the defense sphere." The first and most dangerous if the minister Defense, and the Chief of the General Staff are military.In this case, instead of the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff, we will have the heads of two headquarters, and natural competition will begin on the question of whose influence on the troops is more effective and in accordance with our Constitution, the chief military of the country is the chief of the General Staff. There can not be any contradictions. The chief of the General Staff can not effectively manage the troops if he does not have complete confidence in the Minister of Defense and does not trust the work that is carried out on the part of procurement, military-political dialogue with other countries, the consolidation of the role of the defense system in the state system of government, without which the development of the Armed Forces is impossible, "Sargsyan said, and in this context add That the Minister of Defense can not be effective if it can not rely on a knowledgeable and able chief of staff. The Minister believes that this is the axiom of the management of the defense sphere.
Answering the question whether he is ready to send his one-party sons to the advanced sons (the ruling Republican Party of Armenia-Ed.), Sargsyan stated that neither his party members nor his colleagues ever asked him to arrange his son in this or that military unit. "I believe that this will be more clearly manifested in the course of time, it is a long process, this is a task for a single day." This is the task of forming a common atmosphere, including attitudes to service, "the RA Defense Minister said.