WE WILL BRING UP RUSSIA’S HAND-OVER OF AMMO TO ARMENIA FOR DISCUSSIONS IN OSCE PA SESSION: MP
Trend News Agency
Jan 13 2009
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani members of parliament will bring up Nagorno-Karabakh
during discussions at the winter session of the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly in Vienna.
"The Azerbaijani delegation will bring up Russia’s ammunition sales
to Armenia at the session," member of the Azerbaijani delegation to
the OSCE Rabiyyat Aslanova told Trend News.
The winter session will be held on Feb. 19.
According to mass media reports, Russia sold the following ammo
to Armenia: 21 units of T-22 tanks; 27 units of BMP-2; 12 units
of APC 70/80; 5 BREM-2 war vehicles produced on basis of 5 BMP-1;
four units of ZSU- 23-4 Shilka rockets; various Strela rockets; 875
boxes of F-1 and RQD grenades; 1,050 boxes of RKQ-3/3 EM grenades;
7,897 various packages of ammo (122 millimeters RS; 152 millimeters
2s3; 122 millimeters D-30); 120 units of QP-25 grenade launchers; 2,
846 units of 5.45-millimeter AK-74 and AKS-74 guns; 1,472 units of
7.62-millimeter AKM and AKMS guns; 103 units of NB-8 night vision
equipment; various mines (TM 62 M/P; OZM-72; PMN); 14 units of
BM-37 mine launchers; 9 Grads (RSZO 9K51 BM-21); 10 units of Akasia
howitzers produced on the basis of the T-55 (SAU 152-millimeter 1S);
14 units of Gvozdika howitzers produced on the basis of the MT-LBU
(SAU 122-millimeter 2 S1); 5 units of 100-millimeter Rapira cannons
(MT-12r); and 210 units of 3 M9M3 Kub rockets.
Aslanova said although the agenda for the session has not yet been
made public, Azerbaijani members of parliament will insist on holding
broad discussions about international conflicts.
Armenia occupies 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory –
Nagorno-Karabakh and 7 surrounding regions.
The occupation began in 1988.
In 1992-93, Armenian armed forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and 7
regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia
signed a ceasefire agreement.
Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France and the U.S. –
are holding peaceful negotiations.