Azad Azarbaycan TV, Azerbaijan
Oct 12 2007

Azerbaijan says Armenia secretly amassing arms

Russia’s consent to sell weapons to Armenia, a member of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization, at below-market prices will
increase tension in the South Caucasus, the head of the press service
of the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry, Eldar Safarov, has said.

Armenia hides purchased weapons from the UN Weapons Register. At the
same time, Armenia stations the majority of them in Azerbaijani
territories under occupation. The fact that Armenia keeps procured
weapons in secret shows that this country is inclined to armament.
The handover of part of the weapons and the military hardware from
the Georgia-based military bases to Armenia violates the norms of the
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe [CFE] and this process
aggravates tension in the region, he added.