What occurred throughout recent few days, was a real lesson to us. Starting from ordinary worker, to the highest state circle. We understood, that fight against corruption, rule of law, human rights protection, democracy and other values, are not just simple, nice words. Our fate and that of our country depend on them. Yes, it did cost us dear, but we realized that we need to have a powerful economy to have a powerful army, and for a powerful economy, we need to have a normal country and trust towards the state.
“Don’t speak.” Should be told to those, who in reply to DIRECT questions on arms sales to Azerbaijan by Russia, arms, which killed Armenian soldiers and children, start talking profusely and protect Russian interest within the boundaries of their thought and language flexibility.
The participants of the meeting presented to Serzh Sargsyan issues on the agenda of the Military Committee and their expediency in the strengthening of the military component of the CSTO. The parties exchanged views on the measures aimed at raising the effectiveness of the Joint Staff. Discussed were issues pertinent to the maintenance of security and stability in the CSTO Caucasian area, and particularly, the situation established here after the recent military aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan at the Azeri-NKR Line of Contact.
In Kh.Kokobelyan’s opinion, nobody can justify change of the Board Meeting of EEU Prime Ministers and nobody may say, that it wasn’t pouring water over Azerbaijan’s mill. He stressed that Russia should give adequate assessment to Azerbaijan’s activities and suspend supply of offensive weapons.
“I consider, they don’t imagine yet, what a great damage may be caused to Armenia-Russia relations, that realization lacks. They are more offended with information war, that our press elucidates or our social networks discuss, rather than what has happened,” MP Edmon Marukyan told at today’s joint sitting of the RA NA Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs and the RF Federal Assembly Federal Council Committee on Defense and Security, in response to the question of 168.am: what bothering issue is observed in Russia’s behavior?
There is indirect proof of it in official statistics as well. For instance, volume of internal trade turnover continues to decrease. Purchase by RA citizens for January-February of the current year comprised AMD 264,2 billion, which has decreased by 1.8%, as compared to indices of the same period of the previous year. And this is not surprising, especially against the background of transfers from abroad.
Particularly, touching upon accusations on Russia by Armenian and Azerbaijani circles, that Russia blocks final settlement of the conflict, Lukyanov stated he agreed, that both in Yerevan and Baku, the role of Moscow in conflict settlement is being much touched upon, that the settlement key is in Moscow, that unsettled conflict is beneficial to the Kremlin, as it provides influence levers towards the whole South Caucasus. According to him, such a stage was really existent.
Political aspects of the causes of the start of the April war will be discussed for a long time: many geopolitical, economic and other reasons will be propounded, but the fact is that Azerbaijan has calculated several things. Over the past years Azerbaijan has purchased a large number of new types of weapons and had confidence that this modern weaponry would provide an inevitable victory. At the same time they knew that the Armenian side started major acquisitions, the huge part of which is still underway. If we add the fact that the spending of the Azerbaijani armed forces have been drastically reduced, then it can be assumed that this was the right time for them to try make a “blitzkrieg”.
