The war report is being hidden because of agreements with Baku. Oh

The former Minister of Defense of Armenia, Seyran Ohanyan, stated that the delay in the publication of the investigative commission’s report investigating the circumstances of the 44-day war may be related to possible internal agreements with the leadership of Azerbaijan and the authorities’ desire to cover up their own failures. This was stated by the leader of the opposition “Hayastan” faction in a conversation with journalists.

The politician emphasized that the final document should give a clear assessment of the enemy’s actions. However, in his opinion, the disclosure of data can harm diplomatic processes if there are secret agreements between the parties.

Ohanyan noted that the commission was obliged to comprehensively analyze the work of all branches of the government: the parliament, the executive and the judicial system during military operations. We are talking, in particular, about the assessment of the contradictory steps of the executive, which led to the disruption of the negotiation format, as well as to ignoring the 2019 proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.

The opposition figure strongly criticized the inaction of law enforcement and judicial bodies in the crisis situation. According to him, the relevant structures did not take the necessary hard steps to prevent desertion and establish control in the military zone through additional checkpoints and accelerated investigative operations.

Summarizing the reasons for the non-publication of the report, Ohanyan emphasized that the document contains phenomena that “will harm themselves”, so the country’s leadership avoids presenting them to the public.

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