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At OSCE Parliamentary Assembly meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan opposed
discussion of report on control of armed forces
16:54 28/06/2014 >> REGION
At the meeting of the Standing Committee of the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly, taking place on Saturday in Baku, the Azerbaijani delegation
opposed the discussion of the report of the Finnish co-rapporteur for
OSCE PA's Committee on Political Affairs and Security Pia Kauma
entitled "Democratic Control of Armed Forces and the Vienna Document".
The head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the OSCE PA Bahar Muradova
spoke against the document. She noted that the OSCE PA must
demonstrate a specific position on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
The above mentioned report did say that the regional conflicts pose
additional challenges for the OSCE. The report does not include also
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, as well as conflicts in Georgia and
Moldova. The crisis in Ukraine and the unilateral annexation of Crimea
by Russia "has challenged the whole international order and the
sovereignty of independent state," the report reads.
As APA reports in its turn, since the end of the Cold War, new threats
have emerged with new operational tactics and weapon systems.
The document notes that terrorism, cyber warfare, unmanned aerial
vehicles and the way they can be used to conduct more limited
operations are more relevant to modern security policy, and demand new
responses. The report says that as threats have changed, the
quantitative assessments of troop and material counts do not carry the
same weight they used to. In an age when one can theoretically cripple
an entire nation with a successful cyber attack, simple counts of a
country's main battle tanks or other equipment are of little value.
The document notes that new regional conflicts also pose additional
challenges for the OSCE.
Source: Panorama.am
discussion of report on control of armed forces
16:54 28/06/2014 >> REGION
At the meeting of the Standing Committee of the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly, taking place on Saturday in Baku, the Azerbaijani delegation
opposed the discussion of the report of the Finnish co-rapporteur for
OSCE PA's Committee on Political Affairs and Security Pia Kauma
entitled "Democratic Control of Armed Forces and the Vienna Document".
The head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the OSCE PA Bahar Muradova
spoke against the document. She noted that the OSCE PA must
demonstrate a specific position on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
The above mentioned report did say that the regional conflicts pose
additional challenges for the OSCE. The report does not include also
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, as well as conflicts in Georgia and
Moldova. The crisis in Ukraine and the unilateral annexation of Crimea
by Russia "has challenged the whole international order and the
sovereignty of independent state," the report reads.
As APA reports in its turn, since the end of the Cold War, new threats
have emerged with new operational tactics and weapon systems.
The document notes that terrorism, cyber warfare, unmanned aerial
vehicles and the way they can be used to conduct more limited
operations are more relevant to modern security policy, and demand new
responses. The report says that as threats have changed, the
quantitative assessments of troop and material counts do not carry the
same weight they used to. In an age when one can theoretically cripple
an entire nation with a successful cyber attack, simple counts of a
country's main battle tanks or other equipment are of little value.
The document notes that new regional conflicts also pose additional
challenges for the OSCE.
Source: Panorama.am