Hemayag Haroyan was a colonel in the Nagorno-Karabakh War and a key figure in Mountainous Karabakh's defense planning. The Nagorno-Karabakh War refers to the armed conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the small ethnic Enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh He is now a general of the Armenian Defense Ministry. Defence Minister of Armenia The Ministry of Defense established in January 1992 is in charge of political leadership of the Armed Forces currently headed by Mikael Harutyunyan