TOP NKR OFFICER WARNS AZERBAIJAN AGAINST RESUMING HOSTILITIES
Arminfo, Yerevan
7 Aug 04
STEPANAKERT
“There is no need to pay attention to Baku’s threats regarding a
military solution to the Karabakh problem. If the hostilities resume,
Azerbaijan will sustain serious losses,” Movses Akopyan, chief of the
general staff of the defence army of the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic
(NKR), said in an interview with the republican newspaper Azat
Artsakh.
He said that the NKR defence army is getting stronger year by year.
Large-scale exercises which involve the entire personnel and are meant
to increase the combat readiness of the troops and learn the resources
of the army reserve are under way at the moment. Work is under way to
improve engineering installations. At the same time, the Karabakh army
chief of staff pointed out that the situation on the contact line
between the armed forces of Nagornyy Karabakh and Azerbaijan remains
tense – the war of snipers and sabotage-reconnaissance groups is
continuing.