But they didn’t run. Just the contrary. Armenian millionaire takes his son from the comfortable Oxford and sends him to war, but not to some special military unit, but to the frontline, under Russian “solntsepyok.” As it’s crucial for him to have a brave son, than an advanced economist.
Congresswoman Speier stressed, that otherwise Azerbaijan will continue its policy of violence increase against Armenians. “I strictly condemn violence against the people, who simply want to live the life created as a result of self-determination,” Jackie Speier said.
The Armenian community in Jerusalem today protested Israel’s sale of weapons to Azerbaijan, which are reportedly being used against Armenians in the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region, albawaba.com reports.
The alliance between the two countries has a firm basis in geopolitical realpolitik. Azerbaijan takes special care to maintain its status as a secular state, while its two large neighbors, Turkey and Iran, are best characterized as Islamist regimes with imperial ambitions. Iran especially has a hard time coming to terms with the fact that a country on its border, particularly one with a majority Shiite population, maintains a modern Western, secular lifestyle. Azerbaijan also takes care to uphold a cautious policy of neutrality toward the two regional powerbrokers, Turkey and Russia, even while Ankara and Moscow are engaged in a heated diplomatic, near military, conflict.
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?
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.
“This is an old problem, a long-standing conflict. Unfortunately, there was an outbreak of violence. A compromise should be found. I thought we were close to it a few years ago, but things turned out to be different.”
With so many conflicts in the world, Nagorno-Karabakh gets little attention. The bloody fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in the mountainous enclave this week was a reminder that it should. Tanks and artillery traded fire; at least 50 people were killed in four days. The spectre loomed of a wider war, one that could draw in Russia, Turkey and Iran. A ceasefire brokered in Moscow on April 5th appears to be holding for now. But it brought the two foes no closer to peace.
