CHIEF OF GENERAL STAFF OF RA ARMED FORCES SUGGESTS THAT KARABAKH
ARMED FORCES SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN RA – RF MILITARY TRAININGS
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
April 20 2006
“Azerbaijan violates Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE),
according to which such countries as Azerbaijan and Armenia must have
up to 220 tanks, 285 units of field artillery, etc. Azerbaijan has
already surpassed the limit. We informed the corresponding
international organizations of the fact, having requested them to
undertake measures and affect Baku not to build up military force in
a quantitative aspect”, RA Deputy DM, Chief of the General Staff of
RA Armed Forces, Colonel-General Mikael Harutyunyan stated, De Facto
Information-Analytics Agency’s correspondent in Stepanakert reports.
While speaking about the level of the Karabakh army’s operational
readiness, the General noted, in part, “All the subdivisions and
units of the NKR Defense Army are ready to operate under mountainous
conditions, efficiently use artillery and aviation”. He stressed
subdivisions of the Defense Army could successfully participate in
the counterterrorist operations as well. RA Deputy DM spoke up for
“more frequent conduct of joint Armenian-Russian trainings with the
Karabakh Armed Forces’ participation”. “These are not politicized,
but purely military trainings”, Mikael Harutyunyan noted. In his
words, the situation in the border zone is normal. According to Chief
of the General Staff of RA Armed Forces, “April proved to be quieter
than March”.