ishkhanutyun.am Today, Nikol Pashinyan, after a failed attempt to justify the Azerbaijani soldier, was nonetheless forced to say that he committed a crime; however, he tried to equate the Azerbaijani saboteur with the second President of Armenia, Samvel Karapetyan, and Gagik Tsarukyan, who are subjected to political persecution: 

 

The head of the office of the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, Bagrat Mikoyan, responded to Pashinyan's statements.

 

«I was almost sure that he wouldn't say separately that the Azerbaijani soldier is a criminal; otherwise, at the upcoming meeting, instead of Erdoğan's book, they would have handed him that soldier's picture to hold and take a photo with: 

 

Let's consider that this time the president saved himself from holding something in his arms:

 

In contrast to the current disgrace, during President Kocharyan's time, Azerbaijani soldiers were not "bullets" in Armenia and did not receive the affection of prime ministers,» Mikoyan said: