Karabakh: Louder Baku speaks about war, more confident Armenia has the right to speak about impossibility of concessionsMay 25, 2007 - 15:57 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "All militant calls from Azerbaijan on arms race and possibility of launching military actions in near future give Yerevan a quite successful reason for additional argumentation in the dialog with western superpowers and European structures for grounding its rights on the territories of Lower Karabakh," head of Caucasian Studies at the Caucasian Media Institute Sergey Minasyan stated during an international conference entitled "Caucasus-2006" in Yerevan. He said, Azerbaijan's militarization may give certain political preferences to Armenia. "Azerbaijan considers militarization and calls for war efficient tools for exerting pressure on Armenia making him be more compliant in the Karabakh issue. Armenia can assure that in conditions of such intensive militarization of Azerbaijan keeping that territories under the control of Nagorno Karabakh is one of the important elements for ensuring military balance," Minasyan underlined. "Louder Baku speaks about war for liberating Karabakh, more confident Armenia has the right to speak about impossibility of making territorial concessions from Lower Karabakh. Argumentation becomes more convincing in the eyes of the world community, since concession of territories will disturb military balance and create in Azerbaijan temptation to really launch military actions. Taking into account this circumstance, it is in the interests of the world community to keep the security zone territories around Nagorno Karabakh under Armenian control," he said. At the same time Minasyan underlined mass purchases of Ukrainian armament by Azerbaijan had destabilizing effect in the region. "Azerbaijan bought from Ukraine "Smerch" type 12 missile systems, which approach weapons of mass destruction with their characteristic features," he thinks. "However, arms race is a double-edged thing, and actually it is difficult to say how arms increase in Azerbaijan will have impact on his offensive abilities in case if a war breaks out in Karabakh," Minasyan underlined. Top stories The Armenian Defense Ministry has denied Azerbaijan's accusations of violating the ceasefire. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan took to social media to thank his Lithuanian counterpart for the contribution. President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. Partner news | Moody's upgrades IDBank's rating Moody's has upgraded ID Bank CJSC's (IDBank) long-term local and foreign currency bank deposit ratings to Ba3 from B1. U.S. “very clear” with Azerbaijan: “It’s time to make peace with Armenia” James O'Brien has said that the United States is “very clear” with Azerbaijani that it is a time to make peace with Armenia. PACE adopts resolution on Armenia's commitment to reforms PACE welcomed the electoral reforms implemented by Armenia in accordance with the recommendations of the Venice Commission. Armenia, Germany discuss ties, South Caucasus peace process Armenian lawmakers met with the Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Tobias Lindner. |