Azerbaijan Is Not Ready For A War, As It Is Not Sure It Will Win

AZERBAIJAN IS NOT READY FOR A WAR, AS IT IS NOT SURE IT WILL WIN

15:41 . 01/06

Oil likes peace, while in the case of a war the oil blessing will
become a curse,” Director of ARF Bureau’s Hay Dat and Political
Affairs Office Kiro Manoyan expressed such a position speaking about
Azerbaijan.

On the other side, Azerbaijan is not ready for a war, as it is not
sure it will win. But the frantic arming and the statements we hear
from the Azerbaijani leadership, as well as the ceasefire violation
cases, may become a reason for resuming the war even irrespective of
the will of that country.

The speaker said resumption of military actions in Karabakh is not
profitable to any of the mediators.

“Today all understand that Azerbaijan’s posture is the only obstacle
in resolving the Karabakh issue. The mediator countries either don’t
have the ability of the will to exert pressures on Azerbaijan to
abandon that posture. But the mediating parties wish to bring the
possibility of a war to the minimum,” Kiro Manoyan said.

Russia affirmed after the Georgian-Russian war that South Caucasus is
an important region for it. And starting from 2008, there is no issue
of competition of influence between Russia and the West in this region,
Kiro Manoyan said during a news conference today.

According to him, naturally, the West also has its interests and this
doesn’t mean that the West will not attempt to be established in this
territory, but there is no such a competition as it was before the
war. In the issue of Georgia’s membership to NATO, Georgia is a more
interested party than NATO. Therefore, Russia’s role and position in
the processes in our region is important.