SAMVEL BABAYAN DOES NOT EXCLUDE THAT AZERBAIJAN WILL BREAK OUT WAR AGAINST NAGORNO KARABAKH IN NEAR FUTURE
Noyan Tapan
July 22, 2009
YEREVAN, JULY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. "It is a fact that all Armenian
authorities since 1994 have been ready to cede the seven liberated
areas to Azerbaijan.
It is a different thing that Azerbaijan is not satisfied with it
and also demands proper Karabakh," former Nagorno Karabakh Minister
of Defence, hero of liberation fight of Artsakh Samvel Babayan
announced during a press conference on July 22. According to him,
it is no use speaking about compromises until the Azeri side is ready
for that. Instead, as S. Babayan added, the Azerbaijan’s government
continues to prepare for a war. Reminding that after establishment of
an armistice the Azeris have not signed any document on not beginning
any military operations up to the present he did not exclude that
Azerbaijan will attack upon Artsakh in the near future.
"However the Azeris should know that in case of the very first success
of the Armenians they will have 2-3 million refugees," he said.
Answering the question "Which is, in your opinion, the most favorable
way of the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict?" S. Babayan
noted that the first step should be returning Nagorno Karabakh to
the negotiations table.
"The conflict is not between Azerbaijan and Armenia but between
Azerbaijan and Karabakh," he stressed. S. Babayan classed inadmissible
the approach that the representative of Nagorno Karabakh should be
present only at the signing of the final document.