RA DEFENSE MINISTRY: ‘INSTEAD OF RIBALDRY THE AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE MINISTRY HAD BETTER THINK OVER THE NUMEROUS CONCERNS OF ITS ARMY’

ARMENPRESS
MAY 3, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, APRIL 30, ARMENPRESS: Instead of ribaldry and playing mind
games or making judgments about moral-psychological and martial
readiness of the Armenian Army, Spokesperson for the Azerbaijani
Defense Minister Eldar Sabiroglu and the Ministry had better think
over the numerous concerns of the Azerbaijani army, the statement,
provided to Armenpress by the press and PR office of RA Defense
Ministry, says. The statement touches upon the next warlike rhetoric
of the Azerbaijani authorities. According to a report by Azerbaijani
mass media, a consultation, headed by the President Ilham Aliev, was
held April 23 at the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry on the construction
of armed forces. During the consultation, the Azerbaijani President
demanded from military leaders of the country to be ready for the
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh issue by applying forces. The
President and Defense Minister assured the attendees that the whole
nation and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces support the President. Ilham
Aliev blamed Armenia for occupying territories, destroying the areas
of security (as if it is the Armenians, who destroyed the Armenian
cemetery and thousands of ancient cross-stones in Nor Jugha), as
well as stated that Azerbaijan ‘cannot tolerate the cruelty and
injustice any more’. ‘We all know the reason Baku remembered about
the arms and the 1 billion USD spent on gaining them just the day
before April 24, when people were walking to Tsitsernakaberd with sad
faces in Yerevan,’ the statement reads. Eldar Sabiroglu stated that
‘Armenia will not have the courage to fight the war alone’. Sabiroglu
assured that the international experts consider the consultation held
at the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry quite an important event and that
they said ‘due to the army, supplied with modern arms and high-level
fighting readiness, the unity of the nation with the President, ‘the
succes of the operation for liberating the ‘occupied’ territories
by Azerbaijan and the defeat of Armenia are anovaidable’. ‘This is
the impression of Eldar Sabiroglu about the consultation held in his
native country. However we should note that the Azerbaijani Minister
even did not mention about ‘the defeat of Armenia’, but just said at
the beginning of his speech that ‘the complicated military-political
situation in the region make Azerbaijan raise the level of military
possibilities for safeguarding the territorial integrity and
souvereignity, liberating the ‘occupied’ territories’. The bodies
engaged in propaganda, have the wild passion to confuse the true
reality with the desired reality and tend to justify the defeat
they suffered in the war unleashed by themselves. The Azerbaijani
propaganda machine goes on playing the same stuck gramophone record,
mentioning about some mystic 3d force, which helped Armenia during the
war, but yet being afraid of pronuncing the name of that country. In
parallel, they always stress their achievements in gaining expensive
arms each year and decide the result of the war beforehand; somehow
trying to raise the level of their army’s fighting spirit. ‘But he is
a lieutenant colonel: Sabiroglu does not manage to understand that by
spreading lies and false statements, using the cheapest and oldest
means of propaganda, it is impossible to frighten a whole nation,
which fought the war for defending the territories of the homeland
and won that war’ the statement particularly mentions.