ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN’S "OFFICIAL ENEMY"

Panorama.am
16:32 27/08/2007

The Azerbaijani parliament will adopt the military doctrine of
the country in upcoming fall where Armenia will be mentioned as
"Azerbaijan’s chief enemy," Deputy of Azerbaijani Mili Mejlis Zahid
Oruj informed in an interview to Day.az.

Qualified as "a constitution in military," the document shall include
issues like safety threats, certain factors of various pressures,
spots of conflicts, armament of neighbors and so on.

Taking USA as an example, the Azerbaijani parliamentarians are also
going to list the countries threatening their country. "For example,
U.S. strategic security paper mentions names of countries which fund
terrorism and directly support international crime. In my opinion,
Azerbaijan must apply that practice," Zahid Oruj said. "Armenia will
be mentioned as enemy state in the document," he announced.

The document also mentions Azerbaijan’s priorities to integrate with
NATO. Azerbaijan wants to become "a part of security of the leading
world" through this process. This last point is very interesting since
in the "leading world" pictured by Azerbaijan is not acceptable to
find enemies among neighbors and to fix it at the level of law.