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ARMENIA ARRESTS ALLEGED AZERBAIJANI POLICE SPY
Global Post
Feb 5 2014
Armenia has arrested a former police colonel following allegations
he was trying to pass on military secrets to arch-foe Azerbaijan,
the country's intelligence agency said on Wednesday.
Ex-police officer Khachik Martirosyan, 57, was detained last Friday
after purportedly contacting Azerbaijani officials with the offer of
spying on his ex-Soviet homeland in return for money, the National
Security Service said.
"Azerbaijani secret services asked him to obtain military information,"
the intelligence agency said in a statement said.
"After acquiring the information, Martirosyan was detained as he was
trying to pass it on to his Azerbaijani contacts," the agency said.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are locked in a festering decades-long feud
over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh.
Last month saw an increase in violence along the volatile frontline,
with both sides accusing each other of tit-for-tat raids and at least
four soldiers killed.
Armenia-backed separatists seized Nagorny Karabakh from Azerbaijan
in a 1990s war that killed 30,000 people.
Despite years of negotiations since a 1994 ceasefire, the two sides
have yet to sign a peace deal.
Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the disputed region by force
if negotiations do not yield results, while Armenia has vowed to
retaliate against any military action. AFP
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140205/armenia-arrests-alleged-azerbaijani-police-spy
From: A. Papazian
Global Post
Feb 5 2014
Armenia has arrested a former police colonel following allegations
he was trying to pass on military secrets to arch-foe Azerbaijan,
the country's intelligence agency said on Wednesday.
Ex-police officer Khachik Martirosyan, 57, was detained last Friday
after purportedly contacting Azerbaijani officials with the offer of
spying on his ex-Soviet homeland in return for money, the National
Security Service said.
"Azerbaijani secret services asked him to obtain military information,"
the intelligence agency said in a statement said.
"After acquiring the information, Martirosyan was detained as he was
trying to pass it on to his Azerbaijani contacts," the agency said.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are locked in a festering decades-long feud
over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh.
Last month saw an increase in violence along the volatile frontline,
with both sides accusing each other of tit-for-tat raids and at least
four soldiers killed.
Armenia-backed separatists seized Nagorny Karabakh from Azerbaijan
in a 1990s war that killed 30,000 people.
Despite years of negotiations since a 1994 ceasefire, the two sides
have yet to sign a peace deal.
Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the disputed region by force
if negotiations do not yield results, while Armenia has vowed to
retaliate against any military action. AFP
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140205/armenia-arrests-alleged-azerbaijani-police-spy
From: A. Papazian