I would not accept the term "staff massacre" in relation to the Ministry of Defense; but yes, a major and extensive personnel change must be made in the Ministry of Defense. Armen Khachatryan, an MP of the majority "Civil Contract" Faction, told this to reporters Tuesday at the National Assembly of Armenia.

"We have gone through the [Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)] war [last year], we have seen in practice where there are problems. Major personnel changes must be made in the army, there must be personnel in the army who are in tune with today and can play a major role in the formation of a new [Armenian] army in today's conditions," he said.

The lawmaker stressed that now Armenia has new challenges, and in the latter’s conditions the country’s army needs to have new staff, a new way of thinking.

"We must form a personnel institute ‘armed’ with new knowledge very quickly so that we can move forward. With the old methods, we will not achieve results for a long time; therefore, personnel change is very much in demand. (…) the people who have the vision for those reforms should be in the [military] service.

We cannot be content with what there is [in the Armenian army]. What was there brought us to disaster, and we saw quite serious problems in the war (…)," Khachatryan added.