Armenia’s Iskanders and SCUDs are enough to destroy entire economic potential of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan cannot acquire armaments more powerful than the Iskanders, in our case more powerful than this must be nuclear weapons, which it also cannot acquire, former defense minister of Armenia Vagharshak Harutyunyan told a press conference in “Armenpress”, commenting on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s statement saying they have acquired a new, powerful and destructive weapon.
“Let him go and tell such things to his fellow villagers. First of all, this kind of weapon is impossible to be hide, second of all, our Iskanders and SCUDs are enough to destroy the entire economic potential of Azerbaijan.
Experts are saying in their media that if we use these weapons and target corresponding structures, then 2/3rd of Azerbaijan will remain under water. I’m not saying this, they are talking about this,” Harutyunyan said.
He mentioned that the armaments of the Armenian side have strategic advantages. Today Ilham Aliyev is negotiating with Israel in order to acquire the Iron Dome anti-missile system, but, according to Vagharshak Harutyunyan, this won’t save either. “They are forced to spend billions.
We, by not entering war, forced Azerbaijan to enter an economic race, spend great amounts of money, when its financial resources are being cut”, he said. Commenting on Ilham Aliyev’s statement when the latter said Azerbaijan has become stronger after the April War, Harutyunyan noted that facts prove otherwise.
“Aliyev likes PR. Look what he is doing, Aliyev invested large amounts of money in a village which is under their control and is showing to the Azerbaijani society that he has “liberated” it, he is making a show.
Now he is saying that the April War showed that he is stronger, in this case why did the co-chairs accept Armenia’s proposal on introducing investigative mechanisms, in this case why is Azerbaijan complaining from the OSCE Minsk Group? He will speak many things, because it is aimed at the domestic consumer,” Harutyunyan said.
