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Interfax, Russia
November 5, 2013 Tuesday 9:26 PM MSK
Armenia Defense Ministry: No need for Russian forces to intervene if
Azerbaijan attacks
YEREVAN. Nov 5
There would be no need for Russian or Collective Security Treaty
Organization intervention on the side of Armenia in a hypothetical new
armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh,
the Armenian Defense Ministry's press secretary said.
"The Armenian military and political leadership has repeatedly
stressed that it can see no need for the CSTO or Russia to intervene
to counter an Azeri aggression," Artsrun Hovhannisian said on
Facebook. "The potential of the Armenian armed forces is more than
sufficient for carrying out any combat task."
"Armenia's membership in the CSTO and Armenian-Russian military
cooperation aim to prevent potential aggression from a third country,"
Hovhannisian said.
At a meeting in Baku on Monday, Azeri Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov
urged the Minsk Group, an Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe body mediating in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, to react to a
statement by a senior Russian military officer that Russian troops
might intervene if a new war broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Andrei Ruzinsky, commander of Russia's 102nd Military Base in Armenia,
Ruzinsky told Russian military newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star)
that, if Azerbaijan resorted to armed force to restore its sovereignty
over Nagorno-Karabakh, the forces stationed at the base might
interfere under the Collective Security Treaty,
Hovhannisian, in a comment on Hasanov's reaction to Ruzinsky's point,
said the Azeri Defense Ministry "probably doesn't have proper
knowledge of Article 4 of the Collective Security Treaty or Protocol 5
on the military base of the Russian Federation in Armenia."
Earlier on Tuesday, Armenian Defense Minister Seiran Ohanian said in a
comment on Ruzinsky statement: "We have important security agreements
with Russia."
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November 5, 2013 Tuesday 9:26 PM MSK
Armenia Defense Ministry: No need for Russian forces to intervene if
Azerbaijan attacks
YEREVAN. Nov 5
There would be no need for Russian or Collective Security Treaty
Organization intervention on the side of Armenia in a hypothetical new
armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh,
the Armenian Defense Ministry's press secretary said.
"The Armenian military and political leadership has repeatedly
stressed that it can see no need for the CSTO or Russia to intervene
to counter an Azeri aggression," Artsrun Hovhannisian said on
Facebook. "The potential of the Armenian armed forces is more than
sufficient for carrying out any combat task."
"Armenia's membership in the CSTO and Armenian-Russian military
cooperation aim to prevent potential aggression from a third country,"
Hovhannisian said.
At a meeting in Baku on Monday, Azeri Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov
urged the Minsk Group, an Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe body mediating in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, to react to a
statement by a senior Russian military officer that Russian troops
might intervene if a new war broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Andrei Ruzinsky, commander of Russia's 102nd Military Base in Armenia,
Ruzinsky told Russian military newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star)
that, if Azerbaijan resorted to armed force to restore its sovereignty
over Nagorno-Karabakh, the forces stationed at the base might
interfere under the Collective Security Treaty,
Hovhannisian, in a comment on Hasanov's reaction to Ruzinsky's point,
said the Azeri Defense Ministry "probably doesn't have proper
knowledge of Article 4 of the Collective Security Treaty or Protocol 5
on the military base of the Russian Federation in Armenia."
Earlier on Tuesday, Armenian Defense Minister Seiran Ohanian said in a
comment on Ruzinsky statement: "We have important security agreements
with Russia."
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