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    ARMENIAN FM BLAMES AZERBAIJAN FOR ESCALATION OF REGIONAL TENSIONS

    Interfax, Russia
    March 12 2015

    YEREVAN. March 12

    Azerbaijan has been straining tensions in the South Caucasian region
    and rejects confidence-building proposals from mediators, Armenian
    Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian said.

    "This is a obvious fact that Azerbaijan is provoking tensions in our
    region. Azerbaijan has increased its military budget 30 times from
    $163 million to $5 billion. It is unlikely to find any other state
    on the international arena that would increase its military budget
    30 times," the Armenian Foreign Ministry's press service quoted
    Nalbandian as saying in an interview with Slovenia's Delo newspaper.

    "Azerbaijan also threatens to start new hostilities, a new war,"
    he said.

    "It is a common knowledge that a war is not a path to a solution and
    that one should get back to the negotiating table after such wars. And
    today we have a chance to continue the negotiations with the mediation
    of the Minsk Group co-chairmen. The mediators made five statements
    at the level of presidents on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict. Armenia is ready to move to a settlement on this base,"
    Nalbandian said.

    "The whole reasonability for the escalation of the situation lies on
    Azerbaijan because it is Azerbaijan that rejects the co-chairmen's
    proposals, including the ones aimed at building confidence," he said.

    Nalbandian visited Slovenia on March 9-10.




    From: A. Papazian
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