Prime Minister Nikol pashinyan said Sunday, November 7 that Armenia is currently reforming the army and that his government is determined to establish a professional army in the country.

"We have stated in the Government's Action Plan that Armenia does not intend to carry out any military attack," Pashinyan said in an interview with the Public Television.

"The Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia must adequately defend the territory of the Republic of Armenia and borders from possible aggression."

The Prime Minister weighed in on mistakes that brought to the Armenian side's defeat in the war, noting "fundamental problems in army-building".

"By the way, I think these fundamental problems refer to all of us, the army has, in fact, been inviolable for many years. It is true that there were alarms about the failings and abuses in the army, but usually the authors of those alarms were considered, let’s say, unconstructive, anti-national, etc., but in the end, what happened is the tip of the iceberg," Pashinyan said.

"How did the army develop for many years, how was the army budget formed and how was that budget spent? These are very important questions that ultimately predetermined the actions on the military stage. The gap between announcements and the reality: for example, the Security Council is told that the army is capable of keeping the front line with "no step back", but in practice this does not happen. These are issues that need to be studied very seriously, but from a systemic point of view we have to say that we have, in fact, failed the army-building in the sense that the army must have met the challenges that existed around the Republic of Armenia. And we see the development of defense budgets in Azerbaijan and Armenia. All this, in the end, was reflected in specific areas, in specific positions, with specific phenomena and manifestations. In particular, I would like to mention an important nuance, for example, the work with the reservists. For many years, in fact, the mobilization of reservists in Armenia has not taken place at the proper level. In 2019, we carried out the largest mobilization in the history of Armenia. Even now we continue that logic of the work of the mobilization resource, but we must state that this work had not been done for many years."