Arms-building is of the key points in maintenance of military-political balance between Armenia and Azerbaijan with the Armenian side ensuring this balance, ex-defense minister of Armenia Vagharshak Harutyunyan told Tert.am, assessing the situation on the border.
According to him, Armenia's maintenance of this balance does not let Azerbaijan start war irrespective of the billions that country spends for acquiring military engineering and building arms.
The former minister says unlike Armenia which directs its arms only for keeping safe Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the latter is to keep safe the sea and land borders with Iran and the sea border with Turkmenistan.So the sums Azerbaijan spends for ensuring its security seem huge only at the first glance.
As to the situation created on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Harutyunyan said border instability is not beneficial for the Armenian side. "Armenia does not have territorial demands or other issues to solve. As to Azerbaijan, the latter feels that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will not be solved soon, and it is interested in keeping the situation on the border tensed," Vagharshak Harutyunyan said.
According to him, by keeping the situation tensed Azerbaijan wants to blackmail the international community and Armenia to accelerate the conflict settlement under the threat of resuming war and force Armenia to agree to concessions. It is the main goal of Azerbaijan, though it pursues secondary goals as well like keeping high the military spirit in the army and among the people. "It creates atmosphere of fear, promotes Armenia's emigration and affects the general atmosphere," Vagharshak Harutyunyan said.
Asked why international establishments like NATO and the CSTO do not respond to Azerbaijan's provocations, and the geopolitical centers make unclear statements equalizing the two parties, Harutyunyan said, "It was an incident which is being assessed by them and naturally, it [the incident] may escalate more in future and naturally the political establishments are the first to respond to them. The military establishments may not respond as it was just an incident."
Irrespective of all this though, the ex-defense minister believes that international military-political establishments and the CSTO as well must respond trying to prevent Azerbaijan's further aggression.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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