M Grigorian: Nobody Shall Incite Yerkrapah Union against the People

“NOBODY WILL SUCCEED IN INCITING THE ERKRAPAH VOLUNTEERS UNION AGAINST
THE PEOPLE,” MANVEL GRIGORIAN ASSURES

YEREVAN, December 11 (Noyan Tapan). “I assure you all on behalf of my
friends that we have remained true to the behests and ideas of
sparapet Vazgen Sargsian and will not abandon our cause: to serve our
people and state.” Lieutenant-general Manvel Grigorian, chairman of
the “Erkrapah” volunteers union board and the RA Deputy Minister of
Defence, stated this at the sixth congress of the union on December
11. “Nobody will be able to incite us against the people, nobody will
succeed in this,” M.Grigorian noted. He also assured of the Armenian
army’s fighting efficiency and pointed out that the level of its
training and technical fitting out gives a full guarantee of Armenia’s
security in the region. M. Grigorian also touched upon the issue of
peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict. According to him, the
issue of the territories under control of the Armenian side should be
discussed by diplomats: “If the matter concerns these territories’
defence, we are ready to take up arms again and defend them.” He
called on the union members to be united in the name of protection of
interests of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.