Yet not having overcome implications of the April four-day war, Yerevan and Baku have to again involve in the arms race instigated by Moscow. Basically, the April war became another reason that the parties to the conflict started to get more intensively armed and currently that process is in its most active stage.
“If the Armenian side is discontent with the policy pursued by Moscow, first and foremost, it should observe its own policy,” Stepan Grigoryan, head of the Centre for Globalization and Regional Cooperation, told 168.am, reflecting to Armenia’s toolset of controlling Russia-Azerbaijan new arms deals.
Noting that last year the military service of our troops coincided with the period of time when in April they had to face the offensive of the adversary and defended Fatherland with honor, the President underscored that after decommissioning they still remain the soldiers of Fatherland regarless of where and in what area they continue their activities.
“Let me stress one noteworthy circumstance. After the April war Azerbaijan participated in preparation of agreements in Vienna and St. Petersburg, agreements, which are observed as installation of monitoring systems on the contact line and international observers. Of course, Baku didn’t sign those documents, which prevents application of these means, as international observation in Baku is perceived as interference with Baku’s internal affairs.”
There is no any guarantee that this year import volumes will be recovered and reach 2 billion m3. Of course, purpose of tariff reduction by “Gazprom Armenia” was consumption increase, however, Karen Karapetyan himself isn’t sure that gas supplier will reach that goal.
““Russia has consistently provided armaments to the parties to the conflict, by that attempting not to give predominance to any side, at the same time hinting, that victory of any side isn’t beneficial for it. In this case Russia is led by its national interests, which is keeping Russian presence in the South Caucasus”
“There is no change of stance whatsoever and the stance of the Co-Chairs is well-known from those announcements which have been made multiple times, but Azerbaijan always acted beyond them, and the reporter’s obscene question led to such approach,” Kocharyan said.
“Give assignments to your internal staffs, hereinafter the material brought to the session, which isn’t outstanding, will be the omission of your staff, and we are going to show equal attention.”
“Constitutional requirement of permanent residence for the last 4 years, any law, even the Election Code, as a constitutional law, would hardly bring convincing arguments in favor of the fact, that less than half of 4 years may be considered a fact of residence through the last 4 years regarding legal fiction.”
The Defense Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh informed on January 18, as of 14:00, Defense Army soldier Andranik S. Musikyan (born in 1997) was mortally wounded by Azerbaijani fire in one of the military units located in the southern direction of the Defense Army.
