Komandos: We have no one to rely on, we should rely on ourselves
Retired Major-General Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan welcomes the draft bill that would, if adopted by the Armenian parliament, recognize the independence of Artsakh. “Our leadership has such a viewpoint. They are right to put the question up for debate. We should also consider the efforts of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs and try to combine these two. I am for the initiative but I think that any specific decision would be coordinated with the OSCE Minsk Group. The role of the international mediators is to see to the course of negotiations so that the organism will continue to work as usual,” Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan Ter-Tadevosyan, who is known as Komandos since the Karabakh war in the early 1990s, told A1+. On the other hand, the Karabakh war hero stresses ‘I am not a political figure and I do not want to be involved in such discussions.’ The President of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Radik Martirosyan said on May 5 that Armenians cannot make their own weapons as we shall immediately be was hit in the nose. “Imagine we make one, how can we realize it? Do we have markets? No, we do not. It means we shall have to send those weapons to other countries but they will not allow us to do it, we shall immediately be hit in the nose. There is a fight of life and death on the international arms market and not all countries can freely access it,” Mr Martirosyan said yesterday. When asked about his opinion on the matter, Ter-Tadevosyan said, “from the very first day, we have been saying that we are a peace-loving nation, give us money and we shall do everything with it. Our nation is very talented. I have a group working for me. Besides, people come to me every now and then and offer their help, they make their proposals to us. I think we must make weapons, this is a necessity. Turkey makes weapons. So does Pakistan. Ukraine and Russia help Azerbaijan. But we have no one to help us. We have to rely on ourselves.” The Major-General continues to work with generals who have arrived from different countries. “We want to be useful to our army the way we can,” he said in conclusion.
