BAKU’S BELLIGERENT STATEMENTS INTENDED FOR DOMESTIC AUDIENCE – NKR DM
Yerkir.am
July 01, 2006
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs should communicate with the presidents of
Armenia, Azerrbaijan as well as the president of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, NKR Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian has told journalists.
He has added that the co-chairs should resume the talks process to find
a peaceful solution to the conflict. He also said that the conflict
cannot be solved through using force. "It has been solved through force
once in 1994," he said, adding that the meetings of the presidents
indicates Azerbaijan has no intention to conduct negotiations.
Commenting on Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev’s statement
that ‘ Armenians are scared of war,’ Ohanian said, "Armenians are
not scared of war; beginning from 1988 and up to the present, we have
such a defense system that are fully confident of our capabilities."