ARFD: INCOMPETENCE OF SOME LOCAL POLITICAL EXPERTS AND HISTORIANS REASON OF PANIC IN ARMENIA
ArmInfo
2010-04-02 12:59:00
ArmInfo. As long as Armenia and Azerbaijan fail to make a peace treaty,
there is danger of a new aggression by Azerbaijan, Hrayr Karapetyan,
Head of the Parliamentary Commission for Defense, Interior and National
Security, told media on Friday.
Nevertheless, he said, it does not mean that new aggression is possible
already tomorrow like some political experts and historians are used to
say. Such statements have caused groundless panic among the population,
he said. Karapetyan believes that Azerbaijan’s militarist rhetoric
intensified as the Turkish authorities tried to draw groundless links
between the Armenian-Turkish negotiations and the Karabakh process.
"Nevertheless, I see no preconditions for a new aggression against
Artsakh. I think that the constantly growing military budget of
Azerbaijan is not a precondition for that. In early 90s the Azerbaijani
Army was larger and was armed better than our forces, but it did not
hold us from winning the war. Now the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have
no actual overbalance to our army," he said.