On April 29, with the article “Is Anna Vardapetyan saving the director of the NSS or did she resort to “innocent manipulation”?” article: have published, which you don’t know why, caused “commotion” in the General Prosecutor’s Office, when it is based on dry facts, and we only tried to show that mentioning the cases recorded in the border guard troops under the National Security Service among the number of deaths recorded in the RA Armed Forces or in the context is misleading and manipulative.

And today, on April 30, during the briefing organized after the Government session, Nikol Pashinyan, referring to the service of the border guards, said the following wording did

“I am the prime minister of the Republic of Armenia, but I may not know if there is a question about how the border guard of the Republic of Armenia performs his service, with what logic, because it is a matter of my agenda. no”.

Let’s remind that the Border Guard troops are under the National Security Service, and the Security Service is directly subordinated to Nikol Pashinyan.

In particular, attached to Nikol Pashinyan’s decision of June 28, 2018 on approving the RA NSS statute and structure հավելվածի՝ In the section related to NSS administration and management, it is stated that “The National Security Service is managed by the Prime Minister.” And the director of the National Security Service “manages the organizations and institutions assigned to the national security service”.

In other words, how the border guard will serve, what will happen in the border guard troops, both Nikol Pashinyan and NSS director Andranik Simonyan, and of course the NSS border guard troops commander, are responsible here. Now, when Nikol Pashinyan, who a few days ago, again with pride declared that in the demarcated part of Tavush Marz, the border guard troops of Armenia and Azerbaijan carry out their service without helmets, without body armor, and with rifle magazines not on rifles, but in bags.

Can we say that Nikol Pashinyan puts all the responsibility in this case on the director of the NSS? And in the event that, during the question-and-answer session with journalists, he stated that Armenian border guards will be stationed in the border areas with Iran and Turkey step by step, along with the strengthening of the state’s capabilities.

“According to the agreement signed with Russia in the early 1990s, it is envisaged that along with the capacity of the RA border guard troops, we should take the border under the control of our border guard troops. We also make payments to the Russian border guards for guarding the border. It happened in the past when the Russian partners raised the issue of increasing these amounts, because these amounts are not enough to provide that service.

We also calculate that there is a topic of increasing these funds, we can spend them on developing our border guard capabilities, and little by little, as much as we have the opportunity, the Russian partners will fit in the amount, which is not too difficult for us to pay, and we will take over the control of the remaining parts of the border. This is provided for in the contract,” Pashinyan elaborated.

It should be noted that the Armenian border guards have already replaced the Russian border guards on the border with Turkey At the “Akhurik” checkpoint. The same practice also applies to those on the border with Iran At the “Agarak” checkpoint.

Armenia-Turkey state border from February this year “Prophet” the border service at the crossing point is also carried out exclusively by the forces of the RA border guard troops.

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