Author: Andres-Papazian

Acting Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic addressed a
letter to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in connection with Safarov’s
extradition

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

2012-09-06 12:42

In connection with the extradition and presidential pardon for Ramil
Safarov, Acting Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Vassily Atajanyan addressed a letter to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office,
Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore.

The letter reads as follows – `I state with regret that the official
Baku again undertakes actions to undermine the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict settlement peace process. The extradition to Azerbaijan and
the subsequent presidential decree of pardon for Ramil Safarov, who
was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Hungary for the
murder of a man asleep, is another proof of the fact that Azerbaijan
implements and encourages the policy of hatred and fascism towards
Armenians at a state level, which is a continuation of the Armenian
pogroms and slaughter in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad, Maragha and many
other towns and villages populated by Armenians’.

It notes that `Azerbaijan has once more demonstrated that it is not
going to meet any commitments, including international ones, and its
primary goal is perpetration of another genocide against the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) and annihilation of its
population. Thereupon, the correctness of the path chosen by the
people of Nagorno Karabakh on building an independent, democratic and
powerful state is reconfirmed’.

The letter cherishes hope that `The OSCE and its separate members will
condemn Azerbaijan and will undertake corresponding measures aimed at
putting a constraint on that country to abandon the destructive policy
and the ideology of Nazism.

`For our part, we reconfirm our commitment to the peace settlement of
the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict and at the same time state that we
are able to defend our country and in case of encroachment on its
freedom and independence we will be able to rebuff the aggressor’ –
the letter notes.

From: A. Papazian

Azeri-Hungarian futsal and how to act
dumb

September 8, 2012

It was predictable that we would have to return to Azerbaijan. After all,
it is still the center of attention in Hungary as well as in Armenian
communities all over the world. It is enough to read some of the news items
about rather large demonstrations from Los Angeles to Moscow to realize
that this problem is not going to go away as quickly and quietly as Prime
Minister Viktor Orbán hoped.

Today I am going to write something light-hearted about this deadly serious
business. The first topic will be futsal. Yes, futsal. In case you have
never heard of futsal, it is a variant of soccer that is played on a
smaller pitch and mainly indoors. The
gameis played on a hard
surface with a smaller ball with less bounce than a
regular football.

Hungary is not exactly a giant in futsal. I couldn’t find Hungary in the
top twenty-five national teams. As of now, Spain heads the list with
Brazil, Italy, and Russia following. The best team in Azerbaijan is
Araz Naxçivan, which apparently is pretty competitive on the international
scene. In 2010 the team reached the semi-finals in the Union of European
Football Association’s Futsal Cup, and they repeated that performance at
the UEFA European Futsal Championship that was held in Hungary.

*Péter Szijjártó in action*

It was Zsófia Mihancsik’s
articleon
*Galamus *entitled `Két kérdés Safarov-ügyben’ (Two questions about the
Safarov affair) that piqued my interest. She noticed a small MTI item on
August 17 to the effect that Ottó Vincze, a well known soccer player, had
joined `the office of the prime minister’s futsal team, the Dunakeszi
Kinizsi.’ Dunakeszi Kinizsi last year received a silver medal in the second
string of the National Championship
competitions(NB II). MTI
added that `the players mostly come from the ranks of the
employees of the prime minister’s office =85 including Péter Szijjártó,
undersecretary in charge of foreign affairs and foreign trade.’

A few hours later János Lázár, the new head of the prime minister’s office,
announced
that
`there isn’t, never was, and never will be any kind of football team of the
prime minister’s office.’ There had to be some kind of misunderstanding
here. It is true that many people working for the prime minister
participate in sports and that is a good thing, but the prime minister’s
office doesn’t give its name or taxpayer money to in-house sports
clubs
.

Meanwhile Dunakeszi Kinizsi was preparing for the big game with `one of the
best futsal teams.’ It was a truly special occasion because the match also
celebrated the opening of the refurbished sports arena of Dunakeszi Kinizsi
in the Miklós Radnóti Gymnasium. Szijjártó’s club made it clear to MTI that
this team from Azerbaijan is really tops. The spokesman for the club added
that the Dunakeszi Kinizsi lately has also become a serious opponent
because some strong players joined the team. The friendly meet, it was
announced, will take place on September 10. MTI reported the event under
the headline: ‘The Dunakeszi sports arena will be opened with one of the
best futsal teams of Europe.’

Then came the release of Ramil Sarafov on August 31. On September 3 several
newspapers reported that the game was still on. But on September 5 we
learned from the manager of the futsal club of Dunakeszi Kinizsi that `the
club doesn’t want to give anyone an opportunity to use a sports event as
a
provocation.’ The match was cancelled. So Péter Szijjártó, the chief
negotiator of the Azeri deal, won’t have an opportunity to show off his I’m
sure inimitable skill against Azerbaijan’s best futsal club.

Another story that caught my imagination focused on the Hungarian Foreign
Ministry’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (Magyar Külügyi Intézet). The
historians and political scientists working for this institute have two
main tasks: (1) to prepare background information for the use of the
diplomats working for the ministry and (2) to give advice to the government
in case of a diplomatic blunder.

Well, you can imagine what happened within twenty-four hours after the news
reached Hungary that Ramil Sarafov had received a hero’s welcome upon his
arrival in Azerbaijan. The experts at the institute immediately sat down
and wrote their recommendations. After they summarized the events and the
suspicion abroad that the Hungarian government had exchanged a murderer for
2-3 billion euros, they came out with `sound’ advice. Azerbaijan is more
important to Hungary than vice versa and therefore the Hungarian government
shouldn’t claim that the Azeri president had conned the Hungarian prime
minister. Instead, one ought to play dumb.

*Act dumb / flickr*

If you think that I’m exaggerating, I’m not. The chapter that discusses
this strategy is entitled `Let’s dare to be stupid!’ (Merjünk buták lenni!)
The suggestion was to take all the blame. The author/authors of the
document suggested that Hungarian diplomats rely on sentences such as: `We
believed that the promise coming from the Azeri ministry was sufficient and
we didn’t count on the presidential pardon.’ The Hungarians were told that
they would even have to bear the odium of being considered incompetent:
`Azerbaijan is far =85 there is no true expertise of that region in Hungary=85.
We had no knowledge of the Azeri legal system.’

Further suggestions included the use of official silence in the first
couple of days as proof that the Hungarians were totally unprepared for
such a development. At the same time, they wrote, the Hungarians must
emphasize that as far as international law is concerned Budapest acted
legally. Such a strategy, according to the authors, gives Hungary a way out
in the international community while `it doesn’t endanger the Hungarian
goals in Azerbaijan.’ Through unofficial channels Hungarian diplomats could
tell their foreign colleagues that Baku didn’t keep its promise. Such a
strategy will work with the Armenians and the Americans. (I guess, because
they are naive babes-in-arms.)

The document coming from the Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs
naturally `wasn’t for the public,’ but by September 6 it was in the hands
of the editors of *Népszabadság.* It was leaked, just as the July letter of
the IMF/EU delegation and the letter of the European Commission sent to
Budapest on August 31 had been. These leaks indicate to me that some of the
people working for the Hungarian government came to the conclusion that
they cannot support Viktor Orbán’s hazardous games and therefore they are
willing to assist the Hungarian opposition by making secret documents that
in one way or another reflect badly on the government public.

From: A. Papazian

Artsakh should be recognized as international entity

Sunday,
September 09 Politics

`It was predictable that Ramil Safarov would be extradited, as
Armenofobia in Azerbaijan is being propagated for many years already,
and it was natural for the Azerbaijani to kill an Armenian,’ said
today expert Davit Jamalyan.

He mentioned that killing an Armenian is becoming somewhat legitimated
in Azerbaijan. Society having moral and psychological serious problems
is being formed in Azerbaijan.

According to the speaker, Armenians that are not protected serve a
target for the Azerbaijani and the Armenians should always be ready
for defending themselves: `Azerbaijan should always feel that the
Armenian army is powerful.’

D. Jamalyan mentioned that we should persist in Artsakh not becoming a
part of Azerbaijan. Meanwhile Artsakh should be recognized as
international entity within the present borders of NKR.

The speaker mentioned that we should fortify the Armenian territories
and stay away from the Azerbaijani provocations.

Touching upon the resumption of the war the military expert mentioned
that in order to resume the war the power balance should be disrupted.

According to him the Armenian side is not weak and Azerbaijan
understands that and the reinforcement of the Armenian Army is obvious
for them too. The one who seeks to start a war will never speak about
it.

07.09.2012, 15:54

Aysor.am

From: A. Papazian

Renowned linguist David Crystal to lecture in Armenia

11:24, 7 September, 2012

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: World famous linguist, Professor
David Crystal is scheduled to visit Armenia on October. As British
Council Armenian office public relations responsible Arevik Badalyan
told in the briefing with Armenpress, David Crystal is set to come
forth with four lectures and brief presentation dedicated to
Shakespeare which will be open for all the wishers with initial
registration basis. The lectures are dedicated to English language
theory, application and teaching methods. David Crystal is arriving
Armenia by the invitation of British Council Armenian Office.

”David Crystal is leading expert in English language” The Guardian
writes. Linguist, writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster David
Crystal has published over 100 research works and became most
recognizable by English study and research works. David Crystal is
most famous for his ”The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language” and
”The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language” encyclopedias.
As an expert on the evolution of the English language, he was involved
in the production of Shakespeare at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2004 and
2005 in the “Original Pronunciation” of the period in which he was
writing.

David was awarded with British Empire Awards by the Queen of Great
Britain in 1995 and became a member of the British Academy in
2000.The applications submission to participate in the lectures due in
Yerevan expires on September 20.

From: A. Papazian

Hungarian Consul to Bucharest apologized to Armenians for the actions
of his country’s government

11:45, 8 September, 2012

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS: Romanian Armenians expressed their
anger and frustration concerning Hungarian actions: the extradition of
Safarov and then the immediate pardon granting by Aliyev. Romanian
Armenians held a protest action in Bucharest in front of Hungarian
Embassy also applying to Hungarian political and strategic partners in
NATO and EU to get some explanations for this unacceptable decision.

The community delegation under the supervision of Varujan Pambukchyan
and Romanian Armenian priest Father Ezras handed a protest letter to
the Consulate where the community expressed its revolt about that
shameful and wicked deed, reports Armenpress.

,, The extradition of the perpetrator is a disregard against all the
values accepted by NATO and EU member countries including Hungary.
Armenian community in Romania is next to Hungarian Armenians and
believes that the actions of Hungarian government has violated the
dignity of the ethnic group which has lived harmoniously side by side
with Hungarian people from the moment of the foundation of Hungarian
state. Armenians, all over the world, demand explanations for the
Hungarian government’s unacceptable decision which transferred a
murderer to such a country where he is proclaimed as a hero’. This was
in the protest letter to Hungarian Consulate to Romania.

Hungarian Consul to Romania Oscar Fuzech hosted the delegation and the
protesting youth and from the name of Hungarian government apologized
to Armenia and expressed his deep regret over the incident.

He noted that Armenians created the Hungary side by side with
Hungarians and such a regrettable incident should not disturb the old
friendship and solidarity.

As a prove of his disagreement over this incident he photographed with
the protestors inside and outside the Consulate. Afterwards the
protestors moved to the Armenian district where they continued their
meeting in front of Armenian church.

From: A. Papazian

AFFAIRE SAFAROV DANS LES MEDIAS
L’hebdomadaire « Marianne » consacre trois pages à l’affaire Ramil Safarov

Si la presse et l’ensemble des médias français sont restés
relativement discrets sur l’Affaire Safarov, l’hebdomadaire « Marianne
» (daté du 8 au 14 septembre, n° 2012) vient de lui consacrer pas
moins de trois pages. Sous le titre « L’homme qui peut mettre le feu
au Caucase » Anne Dastakian décrit le crime de l’assassin Safarov, sa
libération et surtout le climat tendu entre l’Arménie et l’Azerbaïdjan
après cette affaire. Dans un demi-page, le professeur Charles
Urjewicz, spécialiste du Caucase et de la Russie tente de répondre si
ce conflit peu aboutir à une guerre entre l’Arménie et l’Azerbaïdjan.

Krikor Amirzayan

ci-dessous l’article de « Marianne » :

“Marianne” page 1
“Marianne” page 2
“Marianne” page 3dimanche 9 septembre 2012,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

From: A. Papazian

Financial Mirror
September 7, 2012 Friday

NATO chief “deeply concerned” over Azeri killer pardon

“I DON’T WANT WAR” NATO’s chief said on Friday he was “deeply
concerned” about Azerbaijan’s pardon of a soldier who had murdered an
Armenian, adding it had not helped efforts to end a territorial
dispute between the neighbouring nations.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Enhanced Coverage
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not risk returning to war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

“There is no military solution,” he told students during a visit to a
diplomatic academy in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku.

Azeri President Ilham Aliyev angered Armenia and world powers by
pardoning Safarov after the army officer was repatriated last week
from Hungary, where he had served eight years of a life term.

Safarov had been convicted of murdering an Armenian officer during a
NATO-sponsored training session in Budapest in 2004.

But the 35-year-old was treated as a hero upon his return, promoted to
major and given an apartment and back pay for his years in jail.

“I am deeply concerned by the Azerbaijani decision to pardon Ramil
Safarov. The act he committed in 2004 was a crime which should not be
glorified, as this damages trust and does not contribute to the peace
process,” said Rasmussen.

After meeting Rasmussen later on Friday, Azeri President Aliyev
defended his decision to pardon Safarov, saying it was perfectly
legal.

Safarov’s repatriation “was carried out in accordance with European
conventions, and his release in accordance with Azerbaijan’s
constitution,” he told journalists at a joint briefing with Rasmussen.

He added Azerbaijan wanted to resolve the Nagoro-Karabakh dispute peacefully.

Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan said on Friday he also did not want
a return to war and suggested the international community should be
tougher on Azerbaijan.

“I’m a man, who has seen a war and that’s why I don’t war another
war,” he told OSCE diplomats at a meeting in Yerevan.

Ethnic Armenian forces defeated Azeri troops and took control of the
mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region in a war that erupted as the
Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991. A 1994 ceasefire halted the
conflict which killed 30,000 people and forced about a million, mostly
Azeris, to flee. Fighting still breaks out intermittently across the
ceasefire line and Aliyev has repeatedly said Azerbaijan may one day
take the region by force.

Countless meetings between presidents and international mediation led
by the United States, Russia and France have brought no deal to end
the dispute in the strategic South Caucasus, a route for Westward
energy exports from the Caspian Sea area, including Azeri oil and gas.

Hungarian authorities say Azerbaijan had promised to uphold the
sentence handed down to Safarov, who entered Lieutenant Gurgen
Markaryan’s room as he slept and attacked him with a knife and axe,
nearly severing his head.

Armenia has suspended diplomatic relations with Hungary, and opponents
of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban say the decision to send
Safarov home was suspicious at a time when he was trying to establish
closer economic ties with energy-rich Azerbaijan.

From: A. Papazian

IRRITANTS XVI
BY GAREN YEGPARIAN

asbarez
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

Unbelievable! As I was writing this piece, I received word of Aliyev’s,
Azerbaijan’s “president’, pardon of the Azeri military officer who
had hacked to death his Armenian roommate at a 2004 NATO language
conference in Hungary. And, this pardon came on the heels of the
murderer being sent back to Azerbaijan by Hungary after the latter had
been assured that the minimum 25-year sentence before parole would be
possible would be enforced. So much for justice. So much for honoring
one’s word. So much for Azerbaijan’s “credibility”. It seems I was
wrong a few weeks ago when I titled my piece “Filthy Azerbaijan”,
since that is clearly too kind a description of a country that is run
by people so debased as to let such vile criminal off! I’m open to
suggestions for better, more appropriate, and more precise adjectives
for next time! How can you not get angry after reading something like
this so early in the day?

Since last August, I have been going to the court hearings regarding
the AXA life insurance case that has gone somewhat haywire. Not
only does the whole situation make me queasy, but the hearings
are often postponed or cancelled. The mutual recrimination of the
attorneys, who once cooperated with one another to bring suit and
win against the deadbeat insurance company, are enough to make
anyone gag. Then, there are the assertions of potential wrongdoing
by third parties. Couple that with one element I think the court is
disregarding, unjustly, and you have a situation where it’s very easy
to jump to conclusions. I feel compelled to bite my tongue constantly
and wait for the proceedings to come to a conclusion. You might want
to come watch the next hearing yourself. It’ll be held in LA’s federal
court building in Judge Snyder’s courtroom on the second floor. This
would show community interest and perhaps create pressure on all
concerned to act more wisely.

Deceptive Republicans may sound like a redundancy these days, but
it must be expressed. It’s so bad that even the conservative mass
media has called vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan out on his
misdirection. But really, the worst of it is this argument presented
by Republicans arguing against President Obama’s reelection (remember,
I’m no Obama lover these days). “He had four years to fix the country,
and he failed, his policies were obviously the wrong ones, we know
how to do it better”. What they conveniently omit is that four years
ago, their stated objective was (from the mouth on none other than
their Senate Minority Leader McConnell) to make sure Obama was a one
term president. So, any policies proposed by Obama and the Democrats
were fought, watered down, or outright prevented from implementation
SO THAT the economy would not improve so they could accuse Obama of
failure. This level of duplicity is unacceptable, since it clearly
places partisan interests above the country’s interests.

Car drivers and bicyclists coexist on the same roads. But, they’ve got
to do it better. I’m fully aware of the “invisible cyclist” phenomenon,
since I’ve been guilty of falling into it, too. And that’s with me
being a fairly regular bike rider. This is a state of mind wherein
somehow auto drivers just don’t “register” that their eyes are seeing
a bicycle with a human on it 20 feet away. So the first thing we must
do is simply train ourselves to be more aware of what’s around us
while driving. The next thing is, we must DRIVE NORMALLY. I encounter
cases of what I’ll call “excess kindness” by car drivers as I’m on
my bike. It happens when, despite the car having the right of way,
the driver will try to allow the bike to “go first”. This is confusing
to me because I don’t know if the driver is simply distracted and will
all of a sudden lurch forward or if indeed they’re letting me go. So,
I slow down or stop. Then the car may not move, so I think “OK, I’ll
go”, as soon as I do so, the driver, reacting to my earlier slowing,
starts to move then I stop, then they stop… You get the idea. Just
obey the rules of the road.

“You’ve won a cruise for two!” Of course the trip was 18 months later,
but they wanted to get $59 from me right away for port fees. That
was the gist of a conversation I had a few months ago after picking
up the phone at home. When I told them their urgent demand for the
relative pittance made me think this was some sort of scam, the caller
was offended. I was told “we’ll just give it to someone else”. Boy,
that sure tore me up… What nerve!

People in the Los Angeles basin are getting a taste of the
heat/humidity more typical of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. Farmers
in the U.S. are experiencing withering droughts. Even National
Geographic, hardly a bastion of wild-eyed radicalism, has on its
September issue’s cover “What’s up with the weather?” Let’s not
even discuss the overwhelming preponderance of scientific evidence
and assessments. Yet, there are still people who “question” global
warming and it human-behavior based causes. They then use this to argue
against “burdensome” regulations, in this case higher average fuel
efficiency and mitigating the release of CO2 into the atmosphere. As
a friend once asked regarding a different issue, I have to wonder,
“Have these people gone to school?”

The close of California’s legislative session, this year on August 31,
is always rife with shenanigans by lawmakers. We usually discover what
happened after the fact. So this is one causes anticipatory irritation!

From: A. Papazian

NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL RAISED ISSUE OF ENSURING AZERBAIJAN’S CYBER SECURITY AFTER ARMENIAN HACKERS’ ATTACKS

Azerbaijan Business Center
Set 7 2012

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
who is on visit to Baku, has stated of the importance of measures to
ease tensions in the region and organization of cooperation.

Mr. Rasmussen has stated to the students of the Azerbaijan Diplomatic
Academy that there is no military solution for the Nagorno Garabahh
conflict.

“The only possibility for promotion is dialogue, cooperation and
compromise,” he said and immediately made a slip in speaking that
NATO is not engaged in the conflict settlement and fully supports
the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group.

At that, NATO Secretary General called on Azerbaijan to continue
reforms in the field of democracy and defense, emphasizing energy
and cyber security.

Almost all in Baku have been enlightened of the urgent need of the
latter after a massive attack on the state information and private
web-resources of Azerbaijan by Armenian hackers. The attack was
made this week, and its scale and nature suggests that the attack
was organized by the Armenian government and was manifestation of
cyber terrorism.

From: A. Papazian

NATO ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ OVER AZERBAIJAN KILLER PARDON

Agence France Presse
September 6, 2012 Thursday 3:04 PM GMT

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday said he was
“deeply concerned” about the pardoning of a Azerbaijani soldier who
axed an Armenian officer to death during a NATO training course.

“I am deeply concerned by the Azerbaijani decision… The act he
committed in 2004 was a terrible crime and should not be glorified,”
Rasmussen said in a speech at Yerevan State University during a visit
to Armenia.

Azerbaijani lieutenant Ramil Safarov was extradited to Baku last week
from Hungary, where he had been serving a life sentence for hacking
the Armenian officer to death in Budapest.

Safarov was immediately pardoned and promoted to the rank of major
after returning home to a hero’s welcome, in defiance of assurances
from Baku to Budapest that he would serve out his term in Azerbaijan.

The issue has inflamed tensions between ex-Soviet foes Armenia and
Azerbaijan which are locked in an unresolved conflict over the disputed
territory of Nagorny Karabakh where they fought a war in the 1990s.

“The pardon damages trust and doesn’t contribute to the peace process,”
Rasmussen said.

“Tensions must be reduced and concrete steps must be taken to promote
regional cooperation and reconciliation.”

Rasmussen said he would convey the same message to Azerbaijan when
he visits Baku on Friday.

More than a thousand young Armenians demonstrated outside the
university where Rasmussen was speaking, chanting “Shame! and “We
demand justice!”

“We demand that NATO expresses a tough position towards Hungary and
Azerbaijan, revises its cooperation with Azerbaijan… and achieves
Safarov’s return to Hungary so that he continues serving his jail
term there,” protest organiser Artur Kazarian told AFP.

Armenia has broken off diplomatic links with Hungary over the
extradition and subsequent pardon, which has also sparked concern in
Washington, Brussels and Moscow.

At a press conference with Rasmussen later on Thursday, Armenian
President Serzh Sarkisian said that “making a hero out of a criminal
is unacceptable”.

“Azerbaijan’s shameful act seriously endangers the security of the
entire south Caucasus,” he said.

But Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov again rejected
international criticism.

“The case of Ramil Safarov needs to be considered in the context of
the Armenian aggression against Azerbaijani territories and the policy
of ethnic cleansing pursued by Armenia against Azerbaijani people,”
he said in comments published on the foreign ministry’s website.

Safarov’s lawyers claimed in court that he was traumatised because his
family became refugees during Azerbaijan’s war with Armenian forces,
and alleged that the man he killed had insulted his country.

Campaign group Amnesty International however expressed concern that the
pardon would be “perceived as an endorsement of ethnically-motivated
violence”.

“By pardoning and then promoting Ramil Safarov, President Aliyev has
signalled to Azerbaijanis that violence against Armenians is not only
acceptable, but rewarded,” Amnesty said in a statement.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have not signed a peace deal since the 1994
ceasefire and there are still frequent gun-battles along the Nagorny
Karabakh frontline.

Baku has threatened to take back the disputed region by force if
long-running negotiations do not yield results, while Yerevan has
vowed massive retaliation against any military action.

From: A. Papazian