ZHOGHOVURD: FIRST ARMENIAN LOSSES ON NAKHICHEVAN BORDER SINCE SIGNING OF CEASEFIRE
08:56 * 06.06.14
Since the signing of the 1994 ceasefire agreement with Azerbaijan,
Armenia actually suffered its first ever losses on the western
border with Nakicevan, the paper says, commenting on the Thursday
deadly shoot-out.
The incident is thought to be likely to change the continuing status
quo over Nagorno-Karabakh. The paper says that the roots of the
far-reaching plan trace back to December 20, 2013, the day Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on creating a separate combined
army on the basis of Nakichevan’s fifth army corps. It further cites
comments by military experts saying that the corps, which has always
been under Turkey’s spotlight, can be considered a marching corps to
a certain degree.
“Shoot-outs occurred in the past too, but they were few in number
compared to the Karabakh front. If we now have two victims, it is
already dangerous given that Nakichevan is entirely Turkey, if not
Azerbaijan. So, let us wait and see what the Armenian side’s equivalent
retaliation there will be,” Vahan Shirkhanyan, a former deputy minister
of defense, is quoted as telling Armlur.am (Zhoghovurd website).
Armenian News – Tert.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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