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Azerbaijan includes fictitious names in military allies' list
12:52 * 24.01.15
Azerbaijan has included fictitious names in a big list of states with
which it ever concluded military partnership agreements, according to
the coordinator of the Armenian military website Razminfo.am.
Speaking to Tert.am, Karen Vartanesyan said he knows that the list
countries names other than Turkey,
Palestine and Israel, which are known to be Azerbaijan's allies. "I
am practically sure that those figures are published for creating a
propaganda effect in an attempt to flaunt that so many countries
support Azerbaijan in the fight against Armenia. But the reality is
that Armenia also can have similar agreements with those countries.
What's even more, agreements and treaties of the kind very often have
no significance at all," he said, describing such efforts as
diplomatic compliments.
The website earlier reported that Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense has
cooperation agreements and memorandums of understanding with 34
countries and cited an Azerbaijani source as saying that negotiations
are now underway for signing deals with 26 more states.
Commenting on the report, Vrtanesyan said he thinks that Azerbaijan
may be really cooperating with some of the states mentioned. "Let us
try to make out, for instance, what aid Turkmenistan can offer to
Azerbaijan given that it has a territorial dispute with the latter.
That country is unlikely to render serious assistance to Azerbaijan.
The same goes for Kyrgyzstan and so on and so forth," the expert said.
He added that such scary figures could be nothing more than an attempt
to show that the world sides with Azerbaijan.
According to Sargis Asatryan, an expert in Azerbaijani studies, other
states' agreements with Azerbaijan are basically anchored on economic
cooperation stemming from the country's oil and natural gas resources
and energy carriers.
"As for agreements with other countries' defense agencies, it applies
to technical military cooperation. And Azerbaijan is trying to more
diversify its arms market, i.e. - to acquire modern weapons of most
different kinds from different countries. Those are the questions that
should trouble us much," he said, agreeing that the list is intended
for propaganda purposes.
Commenting on the report, the political analyst Robert Mehrabyan sees
nothing strange about the kind of list. "Any state maintains
relations, both diplomatic and technical-military," he said,
considering the publication of fictitious names a regular practice for
states.
"And in the press releases of our Ministry of Defense too, it is
possible to provide such reports indicating double-digit figures," he
noted.
As for possible hazards, Mehrabyan said he doesn't think that
Azerbaijan's armament policies should be perceived as something new.
He cited Russia as Azerbaijan's number one ally enriching its arms
supplies.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/01/24/vrtanesian/1568183
12:52 * 24.01.15
Azerbaijan has included fictitious names in a big list of states with
which it ever concluded military partnership agreements, according to
the coordinator of the Armenian military website Razminfo.am.
Speaking to Tert.am, Karen Vartanesyan said he knows that the list
countries names other than Turkey,
Palestine and Israel, which are known to be Azerbaijan's allies. "I
am practically sure that those figures are published for creating a
propaganda effect in an attempt to flaunt that so many countries
support Azerbaijan in the fight against Armenia. But the reality is
that Armenia also can have similar agreements with those countries.
What's even more, agreements and treaties of the kind very often have
no significance at all," he said, describing such efforts as
diplomatic compliments.
The website earlier reported that Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense has
cooperation agreements and memorandums of understanding with 34
countries and cited an Azerbaijani source as saying that negotiations
are now underway for signing deals with 26 more states.
Commenting on the report, Vrtanesyan said he thinks that Azerbaijan
may be really cooperating with some of the states mentioned. "Let us
try to make out, for instance, what aid Turkmenistan can offer to
Azerbaijan given that it has a territorial dispute with the latter.
That country is unlikely to render serious assistance to Azerbaijan.
The same goes for Kyrgyzstan and so on and so forth," the expert said.
He added that such scary figures could be nothing more than an attempt
to show that the world sides with Azerbaijan.
According to Sargis Asatryan, an expert in Azerbaijani studies, other
states' agreements with Azerbaijan are basically anchored on economic
cooperation stemming from the country's oil and natural gas resources
and energy carriers.
"As for agreements with other countries' defense agencies, it applies
to technical military cooperation. And Azerbaijan is trying to more
diversify its arms market, i.e. - to acquire modern weapons of most
different kinds from different countries. Those are the questions that
should trouble us much," he said, agreeing that the list is intended
for propaganda purposes.
Commenting on the report, the political analyst Robert Mehrabyan sees
nothing strange about the kind of list. "Any state maintains
relations, both diplomatic and technical-military," he said,
considering the publication of fictitious names a regular practice for
states.
"And in the press releases of our Ministry of Defense too, it is
possible to provide such reports indicating double-digit figures," he
noted.
As for possible hazards, Mehrabyan said he doesn't think that
Azerbaijan's armament policies should be perceived as something new.
He cited Russia as Azerbaijan's number one ally enriching its arms
supplies.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/01/24/vrtanesian/1568183