SITUATION IN SOUTH OSSETIA AND KARABAKH INCOMPARABLE – ARMENIAN POLITICIAN

ArmInfo News Agency (in Russian)
Aug 8 2008
Armenia

The situation in the Georgian breakaway republic of South Ossetia
and in the unrecognized republic of Nagornyy Karabakh are radically
different and practically incomparable, a top member of the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun, Kiro Manoyan, told the
Arminfo news agency on 8 August.

The situation in South Ossetia has escalated recently with Georgia
actively shelling South Ossetia since early August.

Manoyan said "these two republics [South Ossetia and Nagornyy Karabakh]
are not comparable either politically or by their military capacities,"
Arminfo reported. Manoyan excluded the possibility of Azerbaijan to
start a "new aggression" against Karabakh, the agency added in the
same report.

He said that Azerbaijan simply does not have the necessary military
capacity, irrespective of "a two-billion military budget", otherwise
Azerbaijan would have started an expansion of Karabakh long ago,
the agency reported. Manoyan said: "That is why under the existing
condition, Georgia’s example will hardly contribute to inspiration
of the Azerbaijani government and Azerbaijanis will have to content
themselves with bellicose statements of their President Ilham Aliyev,"
Arminfo added in the same report.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress