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Gagik Melkonyan: How could a citizen purchase Igla system? (video)

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Gagik Melkonyan, a former Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia and a member of the ORO alliance co-headed by former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan and former Foreign Ministers Raffi Hovannisian and Vartan Oskanian, does not rule out that the next order of arrest might be issued for him. “They might come to arrest me in an hour. There is nothing strange here,” he said adding that the same thing cannot be done with the leaders of the alliance. Gagik Melkonyan says ordinary people cannot smuggle Igla shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile to Armenia. “Only the Ministry of Defense can acquire the system. How could our guys bring Igla to Armenia? It is an anti-aircraft missile system and only the Ministry of Defense has the right to purchase it. How could a citizen acquire Igla?” Samvel Babayan, a former top military commander of the Artsakh Republic, was arrested on March 22 with two other persons on suspicion of smuggling Igla shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile to Armenia.