ARMEN AYVAZIAN: ONE MUST SOLVE STATE SECURITY PROBLEMS WITHOUT INTERFERENCE OF THIRD FORCE

Noyan Tapan
Mar 12 2007

YEREVAN, MARCH 12, NOYAN TAPAN. Advices, analyses of any other
state, military-political alliance, experts’ group in the security
issues may only hinder us as those third forces will always
pursue their own interests which will for the most part contradict
Armenian interests. Armen Ayvazian, the Director of the "Ararat"
Strategic-Scientific Center, Doctor of Politics stated about it at the
presentation of the book entitled "Strategy and Security Issues" which
took place in Yerevan on March 10. The book is the 2nd volume of the
"Hayrenatirutiun" series of books which was formed and edited by Armen
Ayvazian. An attempt is made in the book to analyse security issues of
Armenia with own efforts. A number of issues are examined here which
relates to the armed forces and military conceptions of Armenia and its
probable opponents, Azerbaijan and Turkey, possibilities of development
and improvement of relations between the Armenian society and the state
of Armenia, especially, army, activity of Turkish special services,
urgent problems of information security of Armenia, etc. The 1st volume
of the series of books entitled "Liberated Territory of Armenia and
Artsakh Problem. Analytical and Documentary Selected Materials" was
published in February, 2006. It is envisaged to publish the 3rd volume
of the series of books as well. Other issues relating to strategy and
security of Armenia will be touched upon in it. Samvel Martirosian,
an expert on information security issues, touched upon problems of
information security of Armenia.

In his words at the time, when Turkey and Azerbaijan, in a regulated
way, implement obvious anti-Armenian propaganda by internet, the
Armenian side can oppose only activity of individuals living in
Diaspora and Armenia to that propaganda. In the consequence of it,
dozens of thousand of people in the world have a notion about the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict only getting acquainted with the
Azerbaijanl side’s viewpoints. "Azeris broke about 15 Armenian web
sites on February 26, one of which was the RA Ombudsman’s site.

After it Turks smashes 35 Argentinian web sites connected with the
events in Khojalu," S.Martirosian said. In his words, Azeris distort
also the materials relating to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict involved
in one of the famous internet encyclopedias, "Wikipedia." And, in
Samvel Martirosian’s words, it is worrying in that sense that "there
are references to "Wikidepia" in scientific articles being published
in Armenia, and Armenian newspapers placing their publications in the
internet as well simply quote from those publications of Azerbaijani
web sites which have obviously anti-Armenian contents.