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    Armenia unhappy about US plans to deploy military bases in Azerbaijan - paper

    Aravot, Yerevan
    28 Sep 04


    entitled "USA reaches Azerbaijan" and subheaded "Another piece of
    bad news for Armenia"

    28 September: Azerbaijani sources have confirmed that Azerbaijani
    Defence Minister Safar Abiyev and US Deputy Assistant Secretary for
    European and Eurasian Affairs Steven Pifer on Tuesday [21 September]
    discussed prospects of military cooperation, including the stationing
    of US military bases in this country. This report has caused Armenia's
    concern.

    The matter is that according to some reports, it is planned to station
    US military bases on territories under the control of Armenian forces
    in the so-called "occupied" districts of Cabrayil, Fuzuli and Zangilan
    [southwest Azerbaijan], which, incidentally, border on Iran.

    When reports about the return of "occupied" territories cropped up
    again, the talk was precisely about those three districts, which,
    undoubtedly, are of strategic importance both for the Nagornyy
    Karabakh Republic and Armenia, and also in this case for the USA,
    which is about to realize its far-reaching goals.

    The secretary of the Justice bloc faction, Viktor Dallakyan, said that
    there were two arguments in favour of deploying US military bases
    on liberated territories. "First, the USA is interested in putting
    into operation roads and the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline. Second, the
    US presence in these districts is important for the USA to establish
    control over Iran and unleash actions at the right moment."
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