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US State Department provided postponed but logical answer to Azerbaijan-expert
news.am
July 04, 2012 | 01:32
YEREVAN. - The U.S. State Department's decision on removing Azerbaijan
from a list of countries eligible to purchase U.S. military hardware
is logical but postponed, expert Karen Bekaryan told Armenian
News-NEWS.am.
According to him, if one of the sides of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
settlement claims about achieving its goals by applying force, such
reaction will be responded by the mediator-states sooner or later.
`Logically the State Department should have adopted such a decision
long time ago. It is likely that hatred in the Azerbaijani rhetoric
has achieved to such level that it is no more possible to keep
silent,' the expert said.
Asked to comment on the idea that the U.S. move may be simply of
diplomatic character, as Azerbaijan is not so much interested in the
American hardware, Bekaryan said that it may not play a huge role on
military level. However, the matter is in political platform.
The State Department gave a political estimation and it is not simply
a move but a very important symbolic act.
As the agency informed earlier, in response to Congressional concerns
first raised by House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Democrat
Howard Berman, the State Department has removed Azerbaijan from a list
of countries eligible to purchase U.S. military hardware which could
be used by the Aliyev regime in its ongoing attacks against Armenia
and Nagorno-Karabakh.
`This decision by Secretary Clinton is in the best interests of the
Armenian people and for peace in the region,' said Rep. Berman, upon
receiving the modified formal notification from the State Department
late on June 27.
news.am
July 04, 2012 | 01:32
YEREVAN. - The U.S. State Department's decision on removing Azerbaijan
from a list of countries eligible to purchase U.S. military hardware
is logical but postponed, expert Karen Bekaryan told Armenian
News-NEWS.am.
According to him, if one of the sides of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
settlement claims about achieving its goals by applying force, such
reaction will be responded by the mediator-states sooner or later.
`Logically the State Department should have adopted such a decision
long time ago. It is likely that hatred in the Azerbaijani rhetoric
has achieved to such level that it is no more possible to keep
silent,' the expert said.
Asked to comment on the idea that the U.S. move may be simply of
diplomatic character, as Azerbaijan is not so much interested in the
American hardware, Bekaryan said that it may not play a huge role on
military level. However, the matter is in political platform.
The State Department gave a political estimation and it is not simply
a move but a very important symbolic act.
As the agency informed earlier, in response to Congressional concerns
first raised by House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Democrat
Howard Berman, the State Department has removed Azerbaijan from a list
of countries eligible to purchase U.S. military hardware which could
be used by the Aliyev regime in its ongoing attacks against Armenia
and Nagorno-Karabakh.
`This decision by Secretary Clinton is in the best interests of the
Armenian people and for peace in the region,' said Rep. Berman, upon
receiving the modified formal notification from the State Department
late on June 27.