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WHAT IS THE REASON FOR ROSOBORONEXPORT'S CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS ON ARMS' SUPPLY TO AZERBAIJAN?
news.am
July 29 2010
Armenia
Hullabaloo over Russia's possible supply of two batteries of S-300PMU2
Favorit air-defense system to Azerbaijan, is whipped up. First Russian
Vedomosti.ru spread this information referring to sources in the
Russian defense industry followed by immediate response from Baku.
Deputy Head of the press service at the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry
Teymur Abdullayev stated that Azerbaijan is strengthening its army
and intends to undertake further activities in this direction.
NEWS.am addressed Rosoboronexport for the details. Speaking to
NEWS.am's correspondent, press secretary of the Rosoboronexport
Director General Vyacheslav Davydenko neither confirmed nor refuted the
reports. In a private talk, however, he said: "We are not allowed to
make any comments on the agreement, as the agreement has a relevant
stipulation. Russia signed an interstate agreement with one of the
partner countries, which has nothing to do with any others."
Several hours after NEWS.am posted the article, Russian press spread
information saying that Davydenko refuted reports on an agreement
between Rosoboronexport and the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan.
NEWS.am once again contacted Vyacheslav Davydenko with a request
to comment on the contradiction in his statements. Davydenko said
that his official comments are as follows, "Rosoboronexport has no
information concerning the deal. We have no information on such an
agreement." Davydenko also found difficult to answer who might spread
this information and what the reason was.
We can just make guesses about the reasons for such a contradictory
change of positions. It might be also caused by the opinions of some
experts who said that the deal will provoke hostilities in the region,
or, possibly, Rosoboronexport just disliked media's deep interest in
the matter.
From: A. Papazian
news.am
July 29 2010
Armenia
Hullabaloo over Russia's possible supply of two batteries of S-300PMU2
Favorit air-defense system to Azerbaijan, is whipped up. First Russian
Vedomosti.ru spread this information referring to sources in the
Russian defense industry followed by immediate response from Baku.
Deputy Head of the press service at the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry
Teymur Abdullayev stated that Azerbaijan is strengthening its army
and intends to undertake further activities in this direction.
NEWS.am addressed Rosoboronexport for the details. Speaking to
NEWS.am's correspondent, press secretary of the Rosoboronexport
Director General Vyacheslav Davydenko neither confirmed nor refuted the
reports. In a private talk, however, he said: "We are not allowed to
make any comments on the agreement, as the agreement has a relevant
stipulation. Russia signed an interstate agreement with one of the
partner countries, which has nothing to do with any others."
Several hours after NEWS.am posted the article, Russian press spread
information saying that Davydenko refuted reports on an agreement
between Rosoboronexport and the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan.
NEWS.am once again contacted Vyacheslav Davydenko with a request
to comment on the contradiction in his statements. Davydenko said
that his official comments are as follows, "Rosoboronexport has no
information concerning the deal. We have no information on such an
agreement." Davydenko also found difficult to answer who might spread
this information and what the reason was.
We can just make guesses about the reasons for such a contradictory
change of positions. It might be also caused by the opinions of some
experts who said that the deal will provoke hostilities in the region,
or, possibly, Rosoboronexport just disliked media's deep interest in
the matter.
From: A. Papazian