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MP Tigran Abrahamyan, who represents the opposition With Honor (Pativ Unem) bloc, claims the promised reforms in the Armenian army are slow or lack at all.

In a public post on Facebook on Friday, the lawmaker highlighted that after the 2020 war in Artsakh, Azerbaijan set up four new military units of special forces, known as commando units under the model of the Turkish military as part of its army reforms.

According to the Azerbaijani media reports, they were fully trained at Turkish training grounds or other facilities intended for the training of special troops.

“It is envisaged that in the future some of these units will be trained in Azerbaijan with Turkey’s active involvement. I will talk about the army corps and military units of border troops created and restructured separately,” Abrahamyan said.

“Meanwhile, Armenia’s defense minister still talks about private canteens opened three years ago, servicemen go missing at the border in unknown circumstances, troops are on duty in tents in some key border areas and reforms in the military are slow or nonexistent because the minister does not like it. Unfortunately, this series could be continued,” the MP noted, rejecting the authorities’ statements on an “era of peace”.