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YEREVAN. - It’s unclear whether former Defense Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), Lieutenant General Samvel Babayan speaks as a serviceman or political figure after his return.

Hero of Karabakh War, Major General Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (Komandos) told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am Thurday.

In his words, Babayan had been absent for several years and has now appeared. “I know Samvel Babayan very well and respect his activity. The man wants to do something, but as the proverb goes “There is safety in numbers.” The issues should be solved collectively. This isn’t a civil war in the end. If Samvel Babayan wanted to do something, he would come, make a program statement and consult with someone,” Ter-Tadevosyan added.

Earlier, the representatives of “Samvel Babayan: Return” civic initiative disseminated a statement, which reads: “Founder of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army, foreign NKR Defense Minister and Major General Samvel Babayan has returned to Armenia. His experience and skills can play an invaluable role today.”

Babayan was in Moscow recently. Upon arriving in Yerevan, he has so far given one interview, in which he called the situation after the April events as worrisome. Babayan promised to speak more thoroughly in near future. “I’ll leave for Karabakh in several days, since I see my key mission of returning exactly there,” he noted. 

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