Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Feb. 20, 2008
ARMENIA SUPPORTS PKK IN BREAKAWAY KARABAKH REGION – AZERI MINISTRY
Baku, 20 February: It is an irrefutable fact that Armenian churches
in various regions of the world have for yearsbeen Armenian
nationalist parties’ revolution bases and centres for the development
of their action plans and that religious centres have played the role
of arms bases.
Thus, further evidence that Armenia patronizes the PKK and generally
international terrorism are reports circulatedby various media
outlets which say that Armenian terrorists, supported by the state,
carry out their terrorist actionsin Azerbaijan, Turkey and many
countries of the world through cooperation, as a rule, with various
terrorist groups;that there are ties between the PKK terrorist
organization and the ASALA Armenian terrorist organization; and that
it[PKK] is patronized and guided precisely by Armenian terrorist
organizations and receives moral and material supportfrom them, and
that [the latter] recently sold a large amount of munitions to the
PKK, including machine-guns, assaultrifles, explosives, and even
land-to-land and land-to-air missiles.
A statement received by APA from the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry
press service says that the news about the leaderof the separatist
Nagornyy Karabakh regime, Bako Sahakyan, recently meeting Catholicos
of [All] Armenians Garegin II in Echmiatsin and receiving "valuable"
advice from him coincides with reports about the deployment of
PKKterrorist groups in the occupied Nagornyy Karabakh and districts
around it, and [it also coincides with reports] aboutthe territory of
the occupied Fuzuli and Lacin districts having been chosen as a base
for the terrorists.
The terror war waged by Armenia on Azerbaijan is currently being
transformed from the form of an active armed fightinto the phase of
"a cold terror war" and is being waged using various methods. This
terror policy beingconducted by Armenia against Azerbaijan already
covers the ideological, scientific, cultural, moral, information
andsocial spheres and has been brought to the level of a kind of
cyber terror. The most important aspect of this isbelieved to be the
fact that rivers that come from Armenian territory and are sources of
Azerbaijan’s drinkingwater are polluted with chemical, biological and
other radioactive waste. Rivers that create Azerbaijan’s
waterreserves are being polluted by waste from the Metsamor nuclear
power station which is viewed as problematic from thepoint of view of
industrial and domestic security in Armenia by a number of
organizations specializing in theinternational nuclear sphere. This
means a serious violation of international legal norms because on the
basis ofinternational documents [as given], waste discharged into
drinking water sources must be treated first.
However, the treatment of such waste on Armenian territory is out of
the question. Since the amount of all kinds ofchemical and harmful
substances in waters entering Azerbaijan from Armenian territory is
several times higher than thenorm, this may have a negative impact on
the flora and fauna in the river zone and the gene pool of the
Azerbaijanipopulation and lead to an increase in various diseases and
spread of them among people living along water flows.Therefore this
policy being conducted by Armenia should be viewed as that of
environmental terror.
Another danger that may come from Armenia might be food-stuffs
attempted to be smuggled into Azerbaijan from thiscountry that are of
unknown origin and are believed to contain dangerous substances.
Thus, the probability is very high that Armenian products may be
transferred to Azerbaijan via the Qirmizi Korpu marketplace on the
Georgian-Azerbaijaniborder, and the Sadaxli and Taush marketplaces on
the Georgian-Armenian border and also other trading depots. And
thisis the next stage of Armenia’s efforts to continue the war which
it wages on our country by stealth, not on thefront, but by bringing
it to the level of biological terror.