IF AZERBAIJAN STARTS NEW WAR IT WILL LOSE IT, ARMENIA DM SAYS

YEREVAN, MARCH 30, ARMENPRESS: “If Azerbaijan resumes hostilities
in an effort to take Nagorno Karabagh back it will sustain a heavy
defeat,” Armenian defense minister Serzh Sarkisian said today during
parliamentary hearings on possible ways of resolving the conflict, but
added that the price of the victory would be contingent on the extent
of ordinary Armenians and political party’s determination to support
the army.

“If Armenia appears in a situation that was in Azerbaijan in
1992-1994 we may face a complete collapse,” he warned. Sarkisian did
not deny that a new war may start. “I did not deny such a possibility
in 1995, 1998 and in 2000and I do not deny it now. There is always the
threat of a new war and there areno guarantees against it,” he said.

Sarkisian went on to argue that the conflict regulation would be
painful for both nations, as only a compromised solution is
possible. “Compromise means that you have to give in part of what you
have, which is always a painful process. The compromise solution must
be first of all backed by Armenians and not only by the political
elite,” he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress