Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the Ministry of Defense, where he met with the leadership of the Armed Forces, led by Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Onik Gasparyan and Deputy Minister of Defense Gabriel Balayan.

The senior staff of the Armed Forces briefed the Prime Minister on the situation established following the hostilities launched by Azerbaijan on the Artsakh-Azerbaijani line of contact, the retaliatory action taken by the Armenian Armed Forces with a view to suppressing the enemy’s activity.

Prime Minister Pashinyan stated that victory is the only task set before the Armenian Armed Forces. He noted that as always the entire Armenian nation stands by the Army.