ARMENIA WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO RIVAL WITH AZERBAIJAN – AZERI PRESIDENT
Author: S.Agayeva

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
March 16 2006

Armenia will never be able rival with Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev stated on 16 March to an opening ceremony of the 2nd
conference of the World Azerbaijanis.

Azerbaijan strengthens its power mint year by year and this year its
military budget is $600m. “I have charged recently to make equal the
military budget of Azerbaijan to public budget of Armenia in the near
future,” President said. Armenia will never be able to rival with
Azerbaijan. As soon the Armenian leadership realizes it as better.”

Aliyev stated that Azerbaijan should reconsider its participation
in peace talks on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution if it founds
Armenia violating the peace process and showing unconstructive
approach. The 12-year peace talks yielded no results, while it is
unknown how long will they continue. We are loyal to peace talks,
but our patience expires when we face with unconstructive position by
Armenia. If Azerbaijan sees the negotiation process to be of imitation
character, it will refuse from participation in it, he stressed.

Azerbaijan neither within 10 nor 100 years allow the annexation
of Nagorno-Karabakh. Any peace agreement is out question without
repatriation of internally displaced people, he assured.