INFORMATION ABOUT BLITZKRIEG IS GROUNDLESS

A1+
[04:46 pm] 19 April, 2006

How long can the negotiations about the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict continue without the immediate participation of Karabakh and
will NKR accept a decision made without their participation? Asked
these questions by “A1+”, NKR Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan answered,
“As head of a military structure I am responsible for the realization
of military issues.

If you want to have everlasting peace, you must be ready for war. We
must be ready to face any provocation. The military problems of
Karabakh were solved before 1994. The Nagorno Karabakh Republic which
de facto exists today testifies to it.”

Seyran Ohanyan adds, “If Azerbaijan wants to solve the issue by the
military way and not by negotiations, my structure exists for that
case. ” As for compromise, the Minister mentioned that this procedure
has not yet been represented to wide circles of the society and it
is difficult to say what the Karabakh people think of it.

The Minister also referred to the possibility of allocation of
peace-keeping forces in the liberated lands and assured, “At present
we don’t need it. Today the best peace-keeping force is the NKR
defense army.”

Seyran Ohanyan in convinced that the information about the possibility
of starting a blitzkrieg by Azerbaijan is groundless. “We have
corresponding investigation bodies the work of which excludes
the possibility of taking us aback. The sole fact that the whole
army can stand up in the first line for a few hours only speaks for
itself.” Seyran Ohanyan announced that the NKR Defense Army is really
powerful “and it is not by chance that the international structures
are of the same opinion.”

“NKR will fight for every meter of its land and will not make
compromise which will separate them form their motherland Armenia”,
NKR Defense Minister said.