NUMBER OF ARMENIAN ARMED FORCES EXCEEDS STRENGTH OF AZERBAIJANI ARMY BY 34%
Azerbaijan Business Center
Oct 11 2011
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. International conference "Building relationships
across borders" of the parliamentary assemblies of GUAM and the Baltic
states is taking place in Baku.
At the conference Elchin Huseynli, second secretary of the Azerbaijani
Foreign Affairs Ministry's Security Problems Department, has said
that in accordance with the commitments Azerbaijan has undertaken
its armed forces account for 70,000 people.
"At the same time Armenia's armed forces comprise 48,884 people
of personnel currently. However, there are another 45,000 ones in
Armenia-occupied Nagorno Garabakh," he said.
As a result, the actual number of Armenian armed forces is 93,884
fighters, and this is the largest army in the South Caucasus. It is
actually surpassing the number of Azerbaijani armed forces by 34.12%.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Azerbaijan Business Center
Oct 11 2011
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. International conference "Building relationships
across borders" of the parliamentary assemblies of GUAM and the Baltic
states is taking place in Baku.
At the conference Elchin Huseynli, second secretary of the Azerbaijani
Foreign Affairs Ministry's Security Problems Department, has said
that in accordance with the commitments Azerbaijan has undertaken
its armed forces account for 70,000 people.
"At the same time Armenia's armed forces comprise 48,884 people
of personnel currently. However, there are another 45,000 ones in
Armenia-occupied Nagorno Garabakh," he said.
As a result, the actual number of Armenian armed forces is 93,884
fighters, and this is the largest army in the South Caucasus. It is
actually surpassing the number of Azerbaijani armed forces by 34.12%.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress