AZERBAIJANI ARMY MOST POWERFUL IN CAUCASUS, ALIYEV THINKS
By Aghavni Harutyunian
AZG Armenian Daily
19/10/2006
Aliyev Either Does Not Know the State of Azeri Army of Caucasus’s
Geography
Azerbaijani army is the most powerful in the Caucasus today. Aliyev
junior’s flatulency have strangely reached a level that permits himself
to make such statements from Al Jazeera’s air forgetting how corrupted
the Azeri army is and military capacity of the other Caucasian states.
Besides praising his own army, Ilham Aliyev told Al Jazeera that the
Prague Process is the final stage of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
and if "Armenia’s destructive policy aborts this stage then there
will be no possibility to continue the negotiations."
Meanwhile, Aliyev junior understands this stage as a link in
step-by-step regulation – "withdrawal of Armenian occupation forces
from Azerbaijani territories, discussion of Nagorno Karabakh’s status
and of strengthening its security system and peacekeeping activities."
Day.az agency quoted president Aliyev as saying that if there is
are no negotiations, then Azerbaijan will change its strategy and
tactics and will discuss other options. Interestingly, the recent
talks about the impossibility of a new war forced Aliyev to state
that the military option is Azerbaijan’s last resort.
Applying unique political and economic "logic", Aliyev concludes
that Armenia has condemned itself to isolation "by carrying out an
aggressive policy towards its neighbors." "In terms of diplomacy,
Armenia is a losing country," the Azeri leader says and adds that
Armenia can be of no interest to foreigners. This view of Aliyev is
totally grounded in his oil pipeline. Ilham Aliyev rounds of saying
that neither the Diaspora nor the foreign diplomats can help Armenia.
As to Iranian-Armenian relations, Azerbaijan shows concern about them.