AZERI LEADERS INTOXICATED BY OIL DOLLARS – ARMENIAN DEFENCE MINISTER

Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
Oct 11 2005

Yerevan, 11 October: Armenian Defence Minister Serzh Sarkisyan today
expressed the opinion that “some Azerbaijani leaders are intoxicated
by oil dollars”.

Serzh Sarkisyan said this at a ceremony to award the Armenian
servicemen who participated in the international peacekeeping operation
in Iraq, Mediamax news agency reports.

“During the Karabakh war, we proved our right to life, we defended
our independence and ensured the security of our people. Maintaining
the high combat readiness of our army today, we must ensure a peaceful
solution to the Karabakh problem. This is especially important today
when some Azerbaijani leaders seem to be intoxicated by oil dollars
and are singing the same old tune.

The current situation may be compared with the early 1990s, when
Azerbaijani leaders expressed a desire to resolve the Karabakh problem
in a short time in a military way, to seize Nagornyy Karabakh, Armenia
or part thereof. The hostilities showed that this was not a desire,
but only a myth and insanity which vanished on the battlefield. Now
that 11 years have passed since the hostilities, they are singing
the same old song again,” Serzh Sarkisyan said.