BAKU DOESN’T ACCEPT RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY’S EXPLANATION
PanARMENIAN.Net
15.01.2009 18:27 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry expressed "regret"
over the fact of "free of charge delivery of Russian armament to the
amount of $800 million to Armenia."
"The work carried out gives reason to believe the information to be
true," says a statement issued by the Azeri MFA.
The Ministry says that the delivery "is a violation of the UN
Resolutions on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and of the UN Resolution
‘On the Situation in the Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan.’
"Full responsibility for the consequences of this action rests on
Russia," the statement says.
The Russian Defense Ministry refuted Wednesday Azeri media reports
about delivery of Russian armament to Armenia.
The reports are clearly untrue, said Alexander Drobyshevsky, a
spokesman for the Ministry, told The Echo of Moscow.
Earlier, the Armenian Defense Ministry also denied the reports that
Russia supplied Armenia with military hardware to the amount of
$800 million.
The reports are absolutely false, the RA Defense Minister’s spokesman,
colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
Azeri ANS TV quoted Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman Alexander
Petrunin as saying that "Russia delivered military hardware to Armenia
in the framework of a transnational agreement."