SEYRAN OHANYAN CONDUCTS AN OPEN LESSON ON BRAVERY
ARMENPRESS
MAY 3, 2010
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, MAY 3, ARMENPRESS: RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan
conducted today an open lesson of bravery for the pupils of
the secondary school of Mrgashen village, Kotayk province. The
military-patriotic lesson mainly referred to the rout of bravery of
the Armenian history, especially in the Great Patriotic War and the
struggle for existence in Artsakh. According to RA Defense Minister
Seyran Ohanyan, the military authorities of the Armenian Armed Forces,
attached to the higher educational establishments of the republic,
and all the military units, attached to towns and villages, are
currently delivering corresponding lessons. ‘We have been attaching a
great importance to military-patriotic education in recent years. We
should preserve, safeguard and increase our values for the vision for
a brighter future to come true and for using all the opportunities
to make our future more developed, because the Armenian nation has
dreamt of freedom in a safe environment for ages,’ Seyran Ohanyan said.
According to Seyran Ohanyan, the Armenian nation, along with other
nations of the Soviet Union, managed to defend the homeland and to be
one the leaders during the Great Patriotic War. He says the Armenian
nation has always been aware of military science and the martial art.
‘Our history has a number of military leaders, who got their education
in various military academies of the Soviet Union and demonstrated
the character of a commander- leader,’ Mr. Seyran Ohanyan said. He
added that the Armenian nation succeeded in fighting for the defense
of its high dignity during the war of Artsakh as well. According
to the Minister, Artsakh War has a plenty of specifications and one
of them is that ‘we did not have army, but yet managed to organize
voluntary units very quickly to defend the borders of the homeland
and RA towns and villages, situated near the borders’. ‘Then we formed
regular army from those voluntary units (January 28, 1992- in the RA,
May 9- in Artsakh) with our united powers,’ the Minister said. ‘Today
RA Armed Forces involve a slew of military units, which are based on
more important areas, situated near our borders, for that we could
organize the further defense of the Republic of Armenia. We have also
established the Army of Defense of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh,’
RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said. He added that one of the
keys to success of the Armenian nation were the great heroic deeds
of its warriors-heroes.