COLD WAR RETURN POSSIBILE

Panorama.am
18:06 16/07/2007

Azerbaijan can any time announce about the uselessness of its
armament quota. Politician Stepan Grigoryan announced his point
of view concerning that today. As regards to his words the Russian
partnership with the USA and UN has gone for the worse during the
last weeks. He reminded that Russia lately terminated the armament
treaty with Europe wigned in 1990, a treaty that preserved military
stability in the back cold war Europe.

That treaty is directly connected with the security of our area,
as far as in the 1999 established armament quota for the three
south-caucauses countries joined the treaty do not let Armenia and
Azerbaijan have more than 220 tanks. The politician thinks that if
those quotas were a restraining factor for Azerbaijan , then now they
do not even work. "Azerbaijan will announce that it is a matter of
days ,it is useless to keep the quotas and the military escalation
will be unavoidable", he said and added that the restart of the war
is close to the reality.

In answer to the question if Russia’s such step means that the ……in
Europe ceases its existence, S.Grigoryan said, "If some other country
took that step, it wouldn’t mean anything, but Russia is a key member
of the treaty and it is senseless without that country.