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AZERBAIJAN USED TO VIOLATING CFE - DAVID JAMALYAN
12:23 19.07.13
Azerbaijan has for a long period been violating the Treaty on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), the military expert
David Jamalyan told Tert.am as he commented on an analysis by the
Russia-based Voyenno-Promyshlenny Kuryer e-zine.
Azerbaijan is the 5th in the list of the states that purchased weapons
from Russia.
Jamalyan points out the international community's passive stand. "This
behavior may be natural, as the international community is something
impersonal. States pursuing their own interests prefer keeping silent.
The Treaty has been violated for a long period and was recently
violated once again," the expert said, recalling the latest
Russian-Azerbaijani arms deal worth a total of $1bn.
Armenian diplomats have repeatedly raised the problem at the
international level and must explore every avenue in future to raise
the problem.
With respect to Russia, which is actually violating the Treaty as well,
Jamalyan said that all the countries supplying weapons to Azerbaijan
are, to an extent, violating the agreement.
"Unfortunately, nowadays the international law has no power to
influence politico-military developments determined by national
interests," he said.
As regards Russia, Armenia's strategic partner, regularly supplying
weapons to Azerbaijan, Jamalyan calls for being realists.
"Armenia is an independent state. Russia is our strategic partner, but
that state has its own national interests. Although Armenian-Russian
relations have future, it would be naïve to think that Russia should
develop an 'Armenia-centered' foreign policy. It is most important
that Armenians stop viewing Russia as a sponsor and constant defender
of Armenia," he said.
"Russia is our ally whose interests are concurrent with our interests.
But defending Armenia is Armenians' business, and it is only our
foreign policy that must be centered on Armenia. We must not forget
that we can attract Russia only if we are strong," Jamalyan said.
Armenia is as important for Russia as Russia for Armenia.
"With the new reality considered, the issue of neutralizing the
threats of the weapons Russia sold to Azerbaijan must be put on the
Armenian-Russian alliance agenda," Jamalyan said.
"Given the new level of Armenian-Russian military and technical
cooperation, I am sure we are not going to have any problems in
purchasing modern weapons following the asymmetric strategy principle,"
he said.
Armenian News - Tert.am
12:23 19.07.13
Azerbaijan has for a long period been violating the Treaty on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), the military expert
David Jamalyan told Tert.am as he commented on an analysis by the
Russia-based Voyenno-Promyshlenny Kuryer e-zine.
Azerbaijan is the 5th in the list of the states that purchased weapons
from Russia.
Jamalyan points out the international community's passive stand. "This
behavior may be natural, as the international community is something
impersonal. States pursuing their own interests prefer keeping silent.
The Treaty has been violated for a long period and was recently
violated once again," the expert said, recalling the latest
Russian-Azerbaijani arms deal worth a total of $1bn.
Armenian diplomats have repeatedly raised the problem at the
international level and must explore every avenue in future to raise
the problem.
With respect to Russia, which is actually violating the Treaty as well,
Jamalyan said that all the countries supplying weapons to Azerbaijan
are, to an extent, violating the agreement.
"Unfortunately, nowadays the international law has no power to
influence politico-military developments determined by national
interests," he said.
As regards Russia, Armenia's strategic partner, regularly supplying
weapons to Azerbaijan, Jamalyan calls for being realists.
"Armenia is an independent state. Russia is our strategic partner, but
that state has its own national interests. Although Armenian-Russian
relations have future, it would be naïve to think that Russia should
develop an 'Armenia-centered' foreign policy. It is most important
that Armenians stop viewing Russia as a sponsor and constant defender
of Armenia," he said.
"Russia is our ally whose interests are concurrent with our interests.
But defending Armenia is Armenians' business, and it is only our
foreign policy that must be centered on Armenia. We must not forget
that we can attract Russia only if we are strong," Jamalyan said.
Armenia is as important for Russia as Russia for Armenia.
"With the new reality considered, the issue of neutralizing the
threats of the weapons Russia sold to Azerbaijan must be put on the
Armenian-Russian alliance agenda," Jamalyan said.
"Given the new level of Armenian-Russian military and technical
cooperation, I am sure we are not going to have any problems in
purchasing modern weapons following the asymmetric strategy principle,"
he said.
Armenian News - Tert.am