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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s son, Ashot Pashinyan, has today been drafted to the Armenian army alongside thousands of other recruits. He is going to serve is Artsakh upon his own application, a decision he took still as a child.

Pashinyan told reporters today he is proud to send his son off to the Armenian army. “I am proud of him,” he said. 

Asked whether he is concerned about his son’s decision to serve in Artsakh, Pashinyan said: “No less than I am concerned about other soldiers. I think I do not have the right to care for my own son more than for other soldiers.”

He also commented on the claims that before this, senior officials’ sons did not fulfil their mandatory military service at all, noting: “We are clarifying this information now, I do not want to make any official statements at the moment.”