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    DEFENSE MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON: HITTING CIVIL AIRCRAFTS INADMISSIBLE

    arminfo
    Thursday, January 24, 12:20

    "Any civilized country that adopts a law to control its airspace
    brings it in line with international conventions. And according
    to these conventions it is inadmissible hitting civil aircrafts,"
    says Armenian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan
    in an interview with RFE/RL Armenia Service when commenting on the
    Azerbaijan Cabinet's Jan 18 decision.

    To recall, Azerbaijan's Cabinet on Jan 18 issued document on use of
    airspace, which allows official Baku to shoot down civilian aircraft
    deemed to violate Azeri airspace. The document, the use of which is
    obviously intended to thwart plans to open the airport in Stepanakert,
    allow the government of Azerbaijan to declare certain areas "banned
    zones and limited zones," hence allowing the government to randomly
    shoot down aircraft it deems in violation of Azeri airspace."If
    the aircraft does not obey orders to land and there is no exact
    information about innocent passengers onboard, the legislation permits
    the government to shoot down the aircraft," reported APA. Experts
    and Mass Media report that the given decision of the Azerbaijan
    Government applies first of all to the Stepanakert Airport. In
    addition, Azerbaijani sources received the statement by Arif Mammadov,
    Head of the State Department of Civil Aviation of Azerbaijan, saying
    that yet during construction of the Stepanakert Airport they tried to
    take preventive measures and sent a letter to the ICAO. "We informed
    that the airspace of Nagorno Karabakh is closed and in line with the
    Law On Civil Aviation we plan to hit the planes entering that space
    and trying to land on that territory," Mammadov said.

    Artsrun Hovhannisyan believes that Azerbaijan has no legal grounds
    to prevent flights from Stepanakert, which is also technically
    impossible, since the Armed Forces of Armenia are authorized to
    ensure security of flights, he said. "The anti-aircraft forces are
    authorized to hit aircrafts of the enemy and also provide security
    of civil aircrafts. As for the flights to Stepanakert, they are made
    also today by helicopters," he said.

    Following the Azerbaijani Government's decision NKR President's
    Spokesperson David Babayan called the given document as a display of
    "state terrorism." He said in a press conference that Stepanakert is
    able to provide security of the airspace and the territory. Babayan
    is sure that NKR and Armenia must voice this given issue from all
    the international tribunes.

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