YEREVAN. – It is owing to the Armenian people that we were able to have an established army, so quickly in twenty years, whose main task is to defend the borders of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, and it performs this task on a high level, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said Saturday, to news reporters, during his visit to capital Yerevan’s Yerablur Pantheon.

“Our army was able to present itself to our people and to the international community, alike, as an army which constantly improves and which has chosen the development phase,” Ohanyan stated.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, President Serzh Sargsyan paid a visit to capital Yerevan’s Yerablur Pantheon for fallen Karabakh war heroes, in the morning of Saturday, January 28, 2012—the Armenian Armed Forces Day 20th anniversary—and laid a wreath to the memorial. Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan, National Assembly Speaker Samvel Nikoyan, PM, Tigran Sargsyan, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, and senior army officers were also on hand at the Pantheon to pay their respects to the fallen heroes.