NKR MOD: KARABAGH ARMY’S AIR-DEFENSE CAN DESTROY ANY TRESPASSER OF NKR AIR BOUNDARIES

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
April 16 2007

The Nagorno-Karabagh MOD has categorically refuted the Azeri party’s
statement, according to which "the planes of Azerbaijan’s air forces
have maneuvered over the territories controlled by the Armenians in
the direction of Aghdam".

"In case the NKR aerial domain is violated, the Karabagh army’s
air-defense can destroy any trespasser of air boundaries", head of the
NKR Defense Army Press Office, sub-colonel Senor Asratian told DE FACTO
Agency today. In his words, the NKR Defense Army Air-Defense Forces’
battle readiness is at a high level, like it was during the war,
when about 25 Azeri military planes and helicopters were destroyed.

Senor Asratian noted the Azeri planes were in training flights at
a distance of 30-35 kilometers far from the contact line of the
Nagorno-Karabagh and Azeri armed forces, which is fixed by the NKR
air-defense forces.

The head of the NKR MOD Press Office also said the information,
according to which the Karabagh forces’ subdivisions had allegedly
fired the Azeri positions in the Aghdam direction during air maneuvers,
was just misleading information.