STATEMENT BY ARMENIA’S DEFENSE MINISTRY

Aysor
May 6 2010
Armenia

Chief of the Press Office of Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry
Sabiroglu along with various state analysts has recently intensified
propaganda-making statements, followed by a respond of Armenia’s
Defense Ministry, who issued a statement, published below.

"These regular ‘inspiration’ of the Azerbaijani propaganda-making
forces was caused by a statement of Armenia’s Defense Minister,
who said that the Armenian Armed Forces must reach the level of the
strongest armies in the world.

Propaganda-makers of Azerbaijan and their instructors appeared to
have surprised of that statement, and the reason is, very likely, the
fact that they assess their own Army by means of size of the budget,
‘second-hand’ weapons and a practicing of connivance.

"With an eye to sidetrack attention of people from mass killings,
suicides, rape cases, which are regular in the Azerbaijani army, the
‘Military Commissioners’ of Azerbaijani propaganda are used to cheering
up of a single case, that took place in an Armenian Unit. And this is,
at least, understandable as the political and military leadership of
Azerbaijan can’t get rid of the syndrome of the loser.

Army of Azerbaijan, which had been at least three times greater in
number of weapons, equipment, human resources and which used the
Turkish, Ukrainian, Afghan, Chechen and other mercenaries, lost to
Armenia and had to sign a truce deal.

Azerbaijani presidents used to make vociferous statements, promising
to occupy not only Nagorno Karabakh, but some regions of Armenia.

Instead of drawing the moral from the past, Azerbaijan keeps on
speaking in the language of threats, offences and slander.

Once again we declare that the Armenian Army strongly keeps the
positions at the borders of our country and is ready to resist and
to strike a blow on the enemy at any time."