YEREVAN, APRIL 14, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is accusing General Movses Hakobyan of having attempted to surrender the 7^th Defense District of Artsakh during the 2020 war.

He denied Hakobyan’s accusations that he had ordered to halt the mobilization during the war.

“Can you imagine a situation when you are calling for mobilization in a live address and then immediately take the phone and tell them to stop? This is absurd,” Pashinyan said. “When he [Hakobyan], being a high-ranking military official, was trying to surrender the 7^th Defense District, at the presence of several people who are now in this hall I made a decision as a result of which the 7^th Defense District is still under control of Armenian forces.”

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan