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    Turkey behind any plots to provoke new war in South Caucasus -
    Artashes Geghamyan

    12:49 * 16.11.14

    In an interview with Tert.am, Head of the Armenian delegation to the
    OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Artashes Geghamyan commented on the
    statements by Thomas de Waal, Senior Associate, Russia and Eurasia
    Program, Carnegie Endowment, and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

    According to Mr Thomas de Waal, the "incidents are an illustration of
    the increased militarization of the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire line
    over the last 20 years - the most militarized zone in Europe."

    On the other hand, Armenia's president stated that no war was going to
    break out.

    Even if any plans to provoke war in the region are being devised, it
    is certainly being done by Turkey because it is seeking to destabilize
    the South Caucasus to divert the international community's attention
    from the activities of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant along
    the border of Turkey, Syria and Iraq.

    "Mr Thomas de Waal must have certain grounds for his conclusions. He
    studied at Oxford and later wrote a most interesting paper, Black
    Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, which showed a
    more or less impartial approach. He has more contacts with Western
    experts and, as Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment, must have
    arrived at this conclusion. It is suggested that such plans may be
    devised, but President Serzh Sargsyan's statement ruling our war in
    the region is based on much more reliable data. We should not forget
    the detailed talks over the problem between the Russian and
    Azerbaijani Presidents, Vladimir Putin Ilham Aliyev, in Sochi, between
    US Secretary of State John Kerry and Ilham Aliyev in Newport, Wales,
    and between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in Paris, mediated
    by French President François Hollande. In other words, the last two
    months and a half have seen talks between the Armenian and Azerbaijan
    presidents and the leaders of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing states.
    Moreover, following the Paris meeting our FM Edward Nalbandian noted
    positive aspects of the meetings. Therefore, the Armenian president
    stated (doing so during large-scale military exercises in
    Nagorno-Karabakh) there was no threat of war. I think that one of the
    reasons for Serzh Sargsyan's statement is the fact that by unleashing
    war after the Minsk Group co-chairing states' leaders reached certain
    agreements Azerbaijan would show its disrespect for the Russian
    president, the US Secretary of State and the French president. Another
    question is that our supreme commander-in-chief's statement foiled the
    plots to destabilize the South Caucasus devised by Azerbaijani and
    Turkish strategists. Azerbaijan wanted Armenia to retaliate in such a
    way as to neutralize the extremely negative reaction to Azerbaijan's
    act - downing a Nagorno-Karabakh MI-24 helicopter, which had not
    actually reached the Line of Contact. This is evidence that, even
    after Azerbaijan resorted to such a provocation, that their plot was
    foiled, and that country is in an unfavorable situation now. It is
    clear that Azerbaijan is well aware it cannot any more avoid honoring
    the agreements reached during the last two months and a half at the
    meetings with the Minsk Group co-chairing states' leaders.

    As supreme commander-in-chief, President Serzh Sargsyan is well
    informed of the military potential and morale in the armed forces of
    Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia. A man who saw war, a victorious
    commander and hero of Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] will never say
    anything absurd about such a serious matter. Moreover, by his
    statement he re-affirmed Armenia's commitment to the agreements
    reached in Sochi, Newport and Paris.


    http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/11/16/armenia-artashes-geghamyan/

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