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AZERBAIJANI DEPUTY SPEAKER SAYS ARMENIA LACKS INDEPENDENT POLICY
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Sept 27 2013
27 September 2013, 00:10 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Senior Azerbaijani official has said that Armenia is a structure
rather than a country.
"Personally, I do not consider Armenia as a country and stress this
with full responsibility," he said. "Armenia is just a structure, an
outpost in someone's hands," First deputy speaker of the Azerbaijani
Parliament and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on security
and defense Ziyafat Asgarov said on September 16.
Armenia is an outpost in strange hands, Asgarov added.
According to him, Armenia does not have an independent foreign policy.
"There is no normal person with whom one could negotiate on
international law and decisions taken by the UN Security Council,"
he said.
Asgarov added that Armenia's economic situation is getting worse and
worse every year. "Around 100,000 people leave the country annually.
The pension policy is very poor," he said.
Asgarov stressed that if Armenia as a particular country would conduct
a specific policy, then one could negotiate with it.
"Armenia, having no common border with any country which is a member
of the Customs Union, joined this organization. All this is just a
game," he concluded.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in
conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its
South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory,
including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. A fragile
ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by
US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.
From: A. Papazian
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Sept 27 2013
27 September 2013, 00:10 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Senior Azerbaijani official has said that Armenia is a structure
rather than a country.
"Personally, I do not consider Armenia as a country and stress this
with full responsibility," he said. "Armenia is just a structure, an
outpost in someone's hands," First deputy speaker of the Azerbaijani
Parliament and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on security
and defense Ziyafat Asgarov said on September 16.
Armenia is an outpost in strange hands, Asgarov added.
According to him, Armenia does not have an independent foreign policy.
"There is no normal person with whom one could negotiate on
international law and decisions taken by the UN Security Council,"
he said.
Asgarov added that Armenia's economic situation is getting worse and
worse every year. "Around 100,000 people leave the country annually.
The pension policy is very poor," he said.
Asgarov stressed that if Armenia as a particular country would conduct
a specific policy, then one could negotiate with it.
"Armenia, having no common border with any country which is a member
of the Customs Union, joined this organization. All this is just a
game," he concluded.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in
conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its
South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory,
including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. A fragile
ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by
US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.
From: A. Papazian