“Turkey also tries to divert the international community, as it yet has problems linked to Syria, the USA and Kurds. This has even been touched upon in Russian press, that Turkey’s special services, through their agents of influence in Azerbaijan, have set an issue of initiating provocations and diverting from them.”
“I don’t think Azerbaijan is ready to withdraw its aggressive behavior, which is apparent in the recent period. However, there is no background for it. Likewise behavior of Azerbaijan pursues a strategic purpose. It tries to change the status quo condition, which throughout years is existent around Karabakh issue settlement, i.e. this is not only simple aggressive policy, pursuing some domestic policy goal, but has strategic purposes within Azerbaijan as well,”
“Russia is ready to implement its allied liabilities before Armenia, what it currently does, and if Azerbaijan reduces purchase of military equipment against this background, then for us the issue of restoring balance in NKR conflict becomes much easier. As a military expert, I highlight military balance especially in case of equipment like TOS-1 “Solntsepyok” and “Uragan” complexes. These are complexes, in which balance is needed,” Yevseev mentioned.
The Syrian army captured a terrorist of the notorious Turkish nationalist organization, the Grey Wolves, who had played a role in the killing of one of the pilots of Russia’s Su-24 bomber which was downed by Turkey’s Air Force on November 24, 2015.
Membership of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in itself is not an obstacle for Armenia’s cooperation with the EU. Let me recall that the EU and Armenia have completed a scoping exercise prior to the launching of negotiations to see how far our cooperation can go in this new context.
Columnist Paul A.Goble, special adviser on Soviet nationality issues and Baltic affairs to Secretary of State, editor of numerous volumes on ethnic issues in the former Soviet Union, currently Professor at the Institute of World Politics, is the interviewee of 168.am. -Mr Goble, recently head of the Director of National Intelligence of the USA stated on possibility of […]
