ARMENPRESS

DEPUTY SPEAKER OF AZERI PARLIAMENT ECHOES DEFENSE
MINISTER

BAKU, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: A deputy speaker of
Azerbaijani parliament, Ziafat Askerov, echoed today
defense minister Safar Abiyev by saying a new war
between Armenia and Azerbaijan was not ruled out.
Azerbaijan-Novosti news agency quoted him as saying
that the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
was a matter of time.
`Azerbaijan can shift to other options at any
moment to solve this problem. This is her right and no
one can condemn us for it,’ he said.
But he added that the official Baku would prefer a
peaceful solution.
`Azerbaijan has sufficient military and other
resources to use force to win Nagorno-Karabakh back,’
he said.
"As long as Azerbaijani territory is occupied by
Armenia, the chance of war is close to 100 percent,"
defense minister Safar Abiyev said during a November
27 meeting in Kazakhstan of defense chiefs from
ex-Soviet republics.