November 12, 2002 - 22:11 AMT
ESTABLISHING FUND FOR ASSISTANCE TO ARMED FORCES, OFFICIAL BAKU AGAIN WISHES TO FOCUS COMMUNITY'S ATTENTION ON KARABAKH ISSUE
In Nagorno-Karabakh, that the fund for assistance to the Armed forces of the state has been established in Azerbaijan is evaluated as the official Baku's attempt to focus the Azeri community's attention on the Karabakh issue. As "Mediamax' agency reports, NKR parliament foreign relations commission chair Vahram Atanesian has stated that. According to him, the Azeri community today does not take the Karabakh issue as an urgent one. "I do not think that to settle this issue by military means, it is necessary to establish such a fund', Atanesian noted. Simply, having the attention of the community focused on the Karabakh issue again might guarantee majority of votes for the Azeri current leadership at the coming presidential elections.