SERGE SARGSIAN: IN 2005 WE ARE READY TO PAY FOR ARMAMENTS NO LESS THAN AZERBAIJAN DOES

Pan Armenian Network

08.04.2005 05:33

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In 2005 we are ready to pay for armaments no less
than Azerbaijan does. We have heard of Azerbaijan’s intentions to
solve its problems with a grand military budget for already 10
years and will probably hear within the next 10 years as well”,
Armenian Defense Minister Serge Sargsian stated during today’s
meeting with Armenian writers held in one of the military unit
dislocated in the town of Armavir. The armament and efficiency of
the army are inseparable and are capital-intensive, he noted and
added that modernization of the armament, what demand less expenses,
is under way presently. When commenting on the mutual concessions
to be possibly made by Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serge Sargsian noted,
“Some speak of inadmissibility of concessions but we should determine
our position and decide where to lead our people and whether we want
a new or eternal war.” Eternal war is a variant, he said and added
that if the Armenian people chooses such position he will support
them. “I am not obliged to listen one or two persons who have the
right to express their opinion but are blear-eyed”, he stated. At
that Serge Sargsian noted that he does hold the opinion that the
statements on compromises are statements of defeatism.