KARABAKH: LOUDER BAKU SPEAKS ABOUT WAR, MORE CONFIDENT ARMENIA HAS THE RIGHT TO SPEAK ABOUT IMPOSSIBILITY OF CONCESSIONS
PanARMENIAN.Net
25.05.2007 14:57 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "All militant calls from Azerbaijan on arms race and
possibility of launching military actions in near future give Yerevan
a quite successful reason for additional argumentation in the dialog
with western superpowers and European structures for grounding its
rights on the territories of Lower Karabakh," head of Caucasian Studies
at the Caucasian Media Institute Sergey Minasyan stated during an
international conference entitled "Caucasus-2006" in Yerevan. He said,
Azerbaijan’s militarization may give certain political preferences
to Armenia. "Azerbaijan considers militarization and calls for war
efficient tools for exerting pressure on Armenia making him be more
compliant in the Karabakh issue. Armenia can assure that in conditions
of such intensive militarization of Azerbaijan keeping that territories
under the control of Nagorno Karabakh is one of the important elements
for ensuring military balance," Minasyan underlined.
"Louder Baku speaks about war for liberating Karabakh, more confident
Armenia has the right to speak about impossibility of making
territorial concessions from Lower Karabakh. Argumentation becomes
more convincing in the eyes of the world community, since concession
of territories will disturb military balance and create in Azerbaijan
temptation to really launch military actions. Taking into account this
circumstance, it is in the interests of the world community to keep
the security zone territories around Nagorno Karabakh under Armenian
control," he said.
At the same time Minasyan underlined mass purchases of
Ukrainian armament by Azerbaijan had destabilizing effect in the
region. "Azerbaijan bought from Ukraine "Smerch" type 12 missile
systems, which approach weapons of mass destruction with their
characteristic features," he thinks.
"However, arms race is a double-edged thing, and actually it is
difficult to say how arms increase in Azerbaijan will have impact
on his offensive abilities in case if a war breaks out in Karabakh,"
Minasyan underlined.