ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER SURE THAT AZERBAIJAN’S MILITARY
STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN FAVORED BY USA
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 11. ARMINFO. <I military statements have not been
favored by the USA,> says Secretary of the Presidential National
Security Council, Defense Minister of Armenia Serge Sargsyan in
response to the questions of the readers of “Yerkir” newspaper.
As regards Azerbaijan’s direct threats to resume military actions,
they are for both “internal and external consumers,” he says, i.e. 11
years have passed since the cease-fire agreement and the staff of
the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry has not changed practically. That is
why the ministry tries to prove the fighting efficiency of its army,
which is allegedly able to solve the problem in the military way.
Otherwise, <the domestic political opponents will ask themselves a
question that rather big funds are spent to keep the army, so why it
yields to the Armenian army as to it combativity,> Sargsyan says.
Meanwhile, the “external consumption” of the Azerbaijani military
statements is a way to exert pressure both on the Armenian party and
the mediators to catch compromises in favor of Azerbaijan, he says.
Maybe it is to some extent simplified, but the aforementioned is most
likely to be the goal of the militarist statements of Azerbaijan,
which are, undoubtedly, a style to work, Minister Sargsyan says.