AZERBAIJAN WANTS TO SEE ARMENIA DEFEATED WHEREVER POSSIBLE
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 9. ARMINFO. Azerbaijan wants to see Armenia defeated
wherever possible, Armenia’s Defence Minister Serzh Sargsyan says in
an interview to Golos Armenii.
Asked why Azerbaijan is so uncompromising and objectig to Armenia’s
involvement in NATO programs Sargsyan says this is not so
evident. Azerbaijan begins to openly act only when Armenia refrains
from cooperating with NATO or the US or when they change their
attitudes to Armenia. There are many reasons for that: first of all
Azerbaijan has lost its war against Armenia and naturally is trying to
do something to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of its people. That’s
why it makes a serious problem of even an ordinary visit by an
Armenian journalist to Baku.
Asked if Azerbaijan’s threats to resolve the Karabakh problem by force
are serious Sargsyan says that the Armenian army is ready to defend
the independence and the borders of its country. “One can understand
Azerbaijan – what else can it do to calm down its people.” The war
resumption is possible but not in the near future, says Sargsyan.