Author: nina hovnanian

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF NATO SECRETARY GENERAL TO ARRIVE IN ARMENIA

Mediamax
Oct 31 2012
Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. “NATO Week” will be held in Armenia on November 1-8.

The main event held within the framework of “NATO Week” will be
the workshop on “Enhancing security: additional contribution to
NATO’s new partnership policy”, which will be held in “Congress”
Hotel on November 5-6. It will be attended by NATO senior officials,
representatives of Armenian ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs,
political scientists and experts.

NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and
Central Asia James Appathurai will take part in the workshop.

Visits to the peacekeeping brigade of Armenian Defense Ministry will
be held within “NATO Week”. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will hold
a teleconference between Armenian peacekeepers serving in Afghanistan
and Kosovo and their families.

The participants of the workshop will also visit the Crisis Management
Centre of Rescue Service under the Ministry of Emergency Situations
of Armenia.

THE HUNGER STRIKES IN TURKEY: USING ONE’S BODY AS A MEANS OF COMMUNICATION

by Ayse Gunaysu
October 31, 2012

Life came to a standstill in the Kurdish provinces of Turkey on Oct.
30. Shops and businesses were closed, except for a few bakeries and
pharmacies. Buses and other means of public transportation were out
of service. Children didn’t go to school.

Oct. 30 marked the 48th day of hunger strikes by Kurdish political
prisoners in Turkey-a critical stage for human life, not to mention
lasting disabilities. And the government, instead of taking a step
toward a peaceful settlement, continued to fuel the conflict by
slandering the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP).

Protesters in the streets, both in Istanbul and in the Kurdish
provinces, were tear-gassed, chased, beaten, and taken into police
custody.

Oct. 30 marked the 48th day of hunger strikes by Kurdish political
prisoners in Turkey-a critical stage for human life, not to mention
lasting disabilities. And the government, instead of taking a step
toward a peaceful settlement, continued to fuel the conflict by
slandering the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP).

At a time when millions of Kurds were waiting for a hopeful sign from
the government, Prime Minister Erdogan on Oct. 30 declared that he
would not give in to the ongoing “blackmailing [of] the government
by deaths in prisons.”

The Kurdish prisoners had begun the hunger strikes on Sept. 12. Their
demands: the release of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah
Ocalan from solitary confinement; the right of education in Kurdish;
and the right to defend themselves in Kurdish during trial.

With new groups joining, the number quickly reached 700, with 8,000
people taking part in hunger strikes outside of prison.

Their demands may seem unusual; they do not, after all, involve an
improvement in prison conditions, or the better treatment of inmates.

They are more political in nature.

Ocalan’s solitary confinement on Imrali Island in the Marmara Sea
continues under even more severe conditions. For 461 days since July
27, 2011, he has not been allowed to see his lawyers, whose formal
applications for a visit have been denied for unlawful and nonsensical
bureaucratic reasons.

No steps have been taken to resolve the “Kurdish question.” The war in
south-eastern Turkey has been going on for 30 years; has claimed some
50,000 lives; has caused the forced evacuation of 3,000 villages,
leaving millions homeless and unemployed in nearby towns; and has
seen thousands of cases of unsolved murders and missing persons under
police/military custody.

No attempt has been made toward a peace-building process by the
government; on the contrary, the conflict continues to claim more
lives and damage the whole social, political, and economic landscape
of Turkey.

The war is not confined to the mountains anymore. It has spread
to the cities, and through mass arrests. For the past two years,
thousands of human rights activists, municipality workers, lawyers,
journalists, intellectuals, students, and trade unionists have been
thrown in jail with no solid legal evidence of having committed any
offense. The ongoing mass arrests have destroyed the entire setting
for a peaceful political struggle by the Kurds and their supporters.

While parliament members have long worked on a new constitution,
there’s no indication of any intention to recognize the Kurdish
identity as an equal and active part of Turkey’s social and political
life.

What’s worse, the government’s language grows more and more insulting
when talking about the Kurdish question. The givernment refuses
to enter into any kind of talks with BDP deputies, accusing them
of collaborating with the “terrorists.” This, in turn, provokes
ultra-nationalist para-military mobs ready to stage lynching attempts
in the western provinces of Turkey-which has been happening with
greater frequency lately.

BDP deputies are indeed treated like “terrorists” by the police
during peaceful demonstrations, where they are beaten, tear-gassed,
and hit by pressurized jets of water.

An estimated 10,000 Kurdish prisoners in Turkey, who are denied the
right to defend themselves in their mother tongue during trials, are
making a call to Turkey and to the world to hear them. They want us
to see that they have been left with no choice but to use their own
bodies as a means of communication, at the cost of a slow and painful
death in the eyes of a totally indifferent Turkish majority.

TIGRANAKERT WAS PRESENTED IN FLORENCE, ITALY

Tigranakert was presented in All Italian 1st conference on Public
archaeology (Archeologia Pubblica. Il primo congresso di archeologia
pubblica in Italia. Firenze, 29 – 30 ottobre 2012) organized by
University of Florence in Pallazzo Vecchio.The head of Tigranakert
Archaeological Mission, professor of Yerevan State University Hamlet
L. Petrosyan on Monday 29th of October hold a presentation in Pablic
Archaeology all Italian conference in Florence. Bellow there are some
quotations from his presentation.

“The Hellenistic city of Tigranakert is located in the internationally
unrecognized republic of Nagorno Karabagh, which has proclaimed its
independence at the beginning of the 90s of the last century after
the Armenian-Azerbaijani war. The discovery of Tigranakert is one of
the most successful undertakings of the Armenian cultural heritage
in terms of inclusion of this heritage into the current cultural
processes. Before the archaeological research only legends are known
about this city. The initiative to discover the city was a civic
initiative to reveal to the Armenian and international scientific and
political circles, that “historical excursus” of Azerbaijan about
the idea the Armenians came to Nagorno Karabagh only in the 19th
century, was a political hoax, via ignoring the presence of Armenians
during last two thousand years in Nagorno Karabagh and surroundings,
witnessed by many Greek and Roman (Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Plutarch,
Ptolemy, Dio Cassius), Armenian, Arabic, Persian, Georgian historians,
several thousands of Armenian inscriptions of the 7th-18th centuries,
and so on.

During the first stage of the research I have collected all the
bibliographical data about the location. The comparison of this
data with the folk legends as well as with travelers’ portrayals
made possible to assert that Tigranakert was located on the border
of merging of Karabagh mountain range with steppe, on the road from
Armenia to ancient Georgian kingdom of Iberia, in the current river
of Khachenaget. Based on this research in 2005 an expedition was set
for an archaeological research of the area. The mission examined the
territory with radius of 10km where Khachenaget gets out into the
steppe. As a result of this in the south-eastern slope of Vanqasar
mountain, an ancient settlement were verified. The traces were in the
form of foundations of a fortification walls 200m in length, dug into
the rock, as well as large depositories of Hellenistic pottery. This
data was sufficient enough for systematically excavations, as a result
of which during 2006-2012 uncovered some parts of almost 60 hectares
of a city: the Hellenistic Fortified area with foundations dug into
the rock and walls with “swallow-like” ties, the single-domed basilica
church of the Central area, Early Christian necropolis, Hellenistic
necropolis and Hellenistic Quarter, Early Christian Cave sanctuary
complex, and the Canal dug into a rock. We are trying to preserve the
landscape look of the monument, which means exclusion of installation
of any modern object on the whole territory of the monument, if it
could disrupt the landscape perception of the monument.

The next component of this cultural initiative is the publicity efforts
that include organization of almost a dozen exhibitions in Karabagh,
Armenia and one exhibiton in Switzerland, publications, including in
Russian, French, Inglish and Spanish, hope soon in Italian, creation of
a website, creation of Facebook page, several dozens of TV and radio
interviews, 7 documental movies, organization of cultural events, and
finally the establishment of archaeological museum of Tigranakert on
the territory of the monument. As a result, today Tigranakert is the
most known to the public and most visited monument in Karabagh. In the
course of two years the museum had 45 thousand visitors, for comparison
Armenia’s largest and the most visited museum – the State Museum of
History of Armenia, has approximately 40 thousand visits a year.

Despite on the fact that Nagorno Karabagh is not internationally
recognized country and a lot of governments advice their citizens
against visiting the region, almost eight thousand five hundred
visitors of the museum were diasporas Armenians, while four thousand
five hundred were non-Armenians, mostly citizens of Switzerland, USA,
Canada and France. Unfortunately Italy has a very modest position in
this list with only 150 non-Armenian citizens.

Tigranakert not only facilitates the publicity of the cultural
heritage of Nagorno Karabagh, but also reinforces the pride of the
local population, connecting them further to the environment, becoming
the holly center for the people who live in the region. The examination
of the Azerbaijani responses is noteworthy in this context. It can be
characterized from silliness to sobriety, from neglect of facts to the
process of acceptance and interpretation. The first is efficiency,
in 2006 right after the excavations the Azerbaijani media and
websites reported about the excavations. This is true today as well,
from financial support to duration of excavations, to conclusions
of the expedition, although with obvious avoidance to use images
that show the monument in full, for example today you will not find
a Azerbaijani website that has a photo of the full fortress walls
that are widely popular on the Internet. At the beginning there were
only jokes, disparagement. Then they were trying to get serious and
find political answers in our undertakings. The Azerbaijani academy
joins with a special decision about Tigranakert, which has been also
placed on the website of the National Security of Azerbaijan. Today
the results of the recent excavations of Tigranakert are presented on
different websites with dozens of comments among hundreds of images and
structural photos. And it is difficult for an Azerbaijani researcher
to state that there is no city there, it is impossible to assert that
this is not an ancient city, furthermore they write articles today that
the city of Tigranakert existed but it was not an Armenian settlement
and was located in a different location, etc. Meaning they accept
that Armenian archaeologists have discovered a city built during
the era of Tigranes the Great which is not Tigranakert. Azerbaijani
opponents often mention that foreign researchers and scientists
do not cooperate with us because they do not trust our scientific
integrity. Azerbaijani colleagues of course realize that the lack
of cooperation is pure political, the international organizations
that deal with cultural heritage and appropriate state institutions
of certain countries avoid this cooperation because Nagorno Karabagh
is not internationally recognized state.

UNESCO’s Moscow office has rejected to submit two of my proposals to
create a neutral, pure vocational Internet portal with the database of
all the monuments located in the liberated territories, specifically in
the surrounding areas of Tigranakert, which will contain all monuments,
including those of Muslim origins with only one reasoning, the heritage
of these territories cannot be accepted for discussion.

One can resume, that the political situation deprives the people
of Karabagh from the right to live a cultural life, a right that is
stated in the Universal human rights convention a component of which
is transformation of the cultural heritage into a part of everyday
life. The cultural policy in the recent decades is shifting its meaning
and direction in the world. The cultural right of a human being and
the perception of cultural democracy as a policy are getting wide
attention. In this context the largest result of the discovery and
research of Tigranakert is the wide publicity that this monument
has, it is the stream of thousands of people that come to see the
monument disregarding if it is a part of the state policy or how
serious arguments pro and con of the scientist. A lot of them care
about the return of their cultural heritage. Today Tigranakert is a
location where diplomas and medals are granted, competitions are held,
concerts and festivals are organized.

The population of the surrounding villages brings their guests to
Tigranakert, sends books, images and brochures about Tigranakert to
their relatives who live abroad, etc. And isn’t the increase of the
role of cultural heritage in shaping of the identity the main goal
of a cultural policy? At the beginning the discovery of Tigranakert
for me and my friends was an initiative to prove wrong the president
Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan who stated that Armenians have moved to
the territory of Karabgh in the 19th century. Today, after witnessing
the regard toward the monument of the thousands of people, the pride,
I think it is one of the components of the current cultural development
and identity making and attesting in Nagorno Karabagh”.

31.10.12, 23:26

RUSSIA AND TURKEY AGAINST NKR RECOGNITION
Igor Muradyan

Comments – Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 17:48

Not a long time ago during discussions relating to the interests of
Armenia in the UN and the Council of Europe Russia voted like Turkey.

Russia and Turkey are doomed to not only controversies but also
strategic confrontation because changes in their geopolitical
situation, if any, indicated confrontation. However, there remains
agreement and political grounds of Russian-Turkish relations.

A long time ago the genuine Armenian Eurasians who have an impressive
experience of retreats and hangouts understand that the recognition of
the sovereignty of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic contradicts the interests
of Russia. In addition, not only the identical positions of Russia
and Turkey but also more principles approaches are meant relating to
strategic goals.

The statement of the head of the Russian MFA Sergey Lavrov
during the Georgian-Ossetian conflict on “a different situation
in Nagorno-Karabakh” and that recognition of independence is not
applicable had an important role not only in shaping public opinion
in Armenia but also the new domestic policy of its government.

Now even feeble efforts of international recognition of NKR irritate
and possibly also alert Russia. This is not just a matter of creation
of a precedent which may act as a reference point for the autonomies
in Russia but pose a more urgent threat – Russia’s loss of initiative
in the regional policy. Russia is fine with the status quo in Karabakh
only until the balance of foreign participation in its settlement is
maintained and none of the foreign actors has an advantage.

It should be noted that certain political initiatives are not always
feasible and if the key time is lost, politics will take revenge. In
the 1990s the government of Armenia blew its chance and refused the
initiative of international recognition of NKR. Iran’s initiatives
relating to the recognition of NKR by small Islamic states on which
Iran had influence were rejected as well.

Is there relevant information in the computer of the Armenian
foreign ministry or is this information the prerogative of retired
politicians? Evidently, though, the 1990s were more favorable for
the recognition of NKR, and most probably Russia’s stance brought
the situation to a halt.

In the meantime, it has become known that the status quo in Karabakh
interests Moscow not in terms of defense of the Armenian interests
but in terms of the policy of waiting for a convenient opportunity
for an agreement with Turkey and Azerbaijan. The current Armenian
government experienced the consequences of this, and even the minister
of foreign affairs Eduard Nalbandyan felt how it became the hostage
of their illusions; in November 2008 President Medvedev acted as the
manager of organization of the Russian-Azerbaijani-Turkish plot. The
failure of Russia’s basically anti-Armenian initiatives became one
of the major foreign political failures of Russia.

Even a cautious and non-representative process of international
recognition of NKR may pose threat to Russia, first of all because
the United States and France are not going to set hindrances to this
and will at least shut an eye on these events. In the course of time,
however, a situation may occur in which the United States and France,
as well as their partners may prefer using the process of recognition.

Why not? Everything is happening in an impeccable manner, without
casting a shadow on the leading states.

Currently, “limited recognition” of newly independent states is
perceived with irony and mockery but it is hard to tell what these
precedents will lead to. It is possible that the United States will
approve the process relating to NKR as opposed to the recognition of
South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

What will Russia undertake? Certainly, such an influential power has
a lot of political resources but apparently the most effective one
will be the use of the domestic political resources of Armenia, as
well as protrusion of the lack of an independence stance of the NKR
administrative government. at the same time, there will be evident
efforts to coerce Armenian community organizations in Russia to make
efforts to question the feasibility of the international recognition of
NKR. Azerbaijan would gladly sponsor Russia’s policy. The Russian media
will most probably start discrediting NKR as a state worth recognition.

Therefore, Stepanakert urgently needs to carry out demonstrative and
realistic activities for changing its present reputation. Otherwise,
it will result in an untimely use of the current vulnerability on
behalf of those from who it is expected less of all.

ARMENIAN PM APPOINTS GARNIK PETROSYAN AS DEPUTY AGRICULTURE MINISTER

/ARKA/
31 October, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, October 31. /ARKA/. Armenia’s prime minister Tigran Sargsyan
appointed Garnik Petrosyan a deputy minister of agriculture, the
government said Wednesday.

Garnik Petrosyan was born on 1 June 1958. In 1981 he graduated fr om
Armenian Agricultural Institute, wh ere he studied at the Department
of Agrarian Studies. He worked as an agronomist in Masis district of
Armenia, in 1991-96 he hold a position of a chief of agricultural
management department at Masis regional community executive, in
1996-1999 he ran the office of agricultural management and nature
protection department at Ararat region administration.

>From 1999 to 2003 Petrosyan was at the helm of crop cultivation
department at Agriculture Ministry, and in 2003- 2008 he was a head of
crop cultivation, forestry and herb protection at Agriculture Ministry.

>From March 2010 to April 2012 Petrosyan was a national advisor to
FAO program.

PARTIALLY COLLAPSED GYUMRI DORM IS HOME TO TWENTY FAMILIES

11:09, October 31, 2012

Liana is a 27 year-old single mother with five children.

She and her kids were born in the dormitory belonging to the former
Lentextile Combine in Gyumri that was damaged in the 1988 earthquake.

In subsequent years, the dorm partially collapsed. But some twenty
families still live there.

The four story dormitory is located in the center of Gyumri, near
the Shirak Regional Authority office and the police station. The
dilapidated building has since been privatized.

Families from various former Soviet republics now live in its ruins.

The dorm has no public amenities. There are no water or sewage
facilities. Residents use the collapsed section of the dorm as a
toilet. Even the stairs are damaged to the point that one wrong step
could end in a bad accident or worse.

FACEBOOK WARS: ARMENIA’S FORMER POLITICAL ALLIES EXCHANGE ACRIMONIOUS COMMENTS VIA INTERNET
By Gayane Abrahamyan

ArmeniaNow
Politics | 31.10.12 | 14:22

Vartan Oskanian, Eduard Sharmazanov

Political disputes among Armenian lawmakers have shifted from the
parliamentary chamber to online social networking sites like Facebook.

In this virtual space the most active participants have so far
been education and science minister Armen Ashotyan and Prosperous
Armenia Party (PAP) MP Vartan Oskanian. However, recently other
parliamentarians have become more active, too.

Deputy Parliament Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov has written a lengthy
response to Oskanian’s critical comments posted last week on
why efforts and time should be wasted on visits to African and
Latin-American countries.

“When Azeries were finishing their preparations for receiving Safarov,
the foreign minister [Edward Nalbandyan] was in New Zealand. During
the recent dramatic events in the region he was in Africa, and now
he is in Latin America,” Oskanian wrote, meaning the controversial
extradition by Hungary and subsequent pardon in Azerbaijan of the
confessed Azeri killer of an Armenian, Ramil Safarov.

Sharmazanov came forth with a belated but rather blatant response,
calling the former FM’s comments “cheep populism and dilettante
approach”.

“Oskanian ‘points out with bemusement’ and does not understand the
importance of the current foreign minister’s visits to Asian, African
and Latin American countries. Of course it would “not be clear”,
because the former foreign minister during the decade of his tenure
was oblivious to the above-mentioned regions, and, as a consequence,
dozens of countries simply gave in to Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian
policy,” he wrote on his page.

Sharmazanov does not rule out that “perhaps it was that very
indifference that gave birth to the “laurel” of Oskanian’s
ten-year-long policy of complementarism – the UN General Assembly’s
anti-Armenian resolution of 2008″.

The deputy speaker of parliament who is also a spokesman for the
ruling Republican Party of Armenia qualifies Oskanian’s mentality
as “dilettante”, despite the fact that Oskanian was his party-lead
government’s foreign minister for ten years.

“When someone who held the highest position in the Foreign Ministry
for 15 years makes such comments, serious questions come forth. Well,
dilettante remains dilettante..,” he concludes.

Another FB dispute has been initiated by Republican MP Samvel
Farmanyan, who questioned PAP’s new status of an “alternative force”
and urged PAP members to come up with their ideas and vision on
foreign policy issues.

“In which issues is PAP’s being an alternative force expressed?” asks
Farmanyan, and cites the main directions of Armenia’s foreign policy
and stresses that PAP’s plan and projects are no different at all.

PAP’s unlikely to delay its response in Facebook’s virtual realm.

TANER AKCAM, SCHOLAR OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, PRESENT NEW BOOK IN NEW YORK

Published: Wednesday October 31, 2012

Prof. Akcam signs copies of his new book.

New York – For decades, Ottoman Empire archives have been central
to Armenian Genocide studies, and few scholars know those annals of
history as well as Taner Akcam.

One of Turkey’s first academics to publicly acknowledge and discuss
the genocide, Akcam is a leading authority on the subject whose work
has been published internationally.

His latest book, “The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The
Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire,” which
sheds new light on one of the darkest periods in Armenian history,
was presented at a New York event co-sponsored by AGBU Ararat.

On October 18, a crowd over 120 gathered in the Eastern Diocese of
the Armenian Church of America in New York to hear Akcam introduce
his recent publication, which is filled with some 600 once-classified
Ottoman-era documents. Before Akcam took the podium, Diocesan Council
chair Oscar Tatosian delivered the welcoming remarks. He applauded
both Akcam and Peter Balakian, the award-winning poet and author who
introduced the lecture, stating, “neither man is a stranger to the
Diocesan Center. That’s because this center has been the true hub
of our community over its four decades of existence. So many great
and influential figures of our generation – Armenian and otherwise –
have come here, to meet the people, and address our concerns. Tonight
is no exception.”

Balakian, who himself has been praised as a leading voice for Armenian
Genocide advocacy, was next to take the microphone. He recounted
Akcam’s student activism on behalf of Turkey’s minorities, which
resulted in his 10-year prison sentence in 1976 – a term cut short
by his unlikely escape to Germany, where he began his groundbreaking
research on Turkish nationalism. As Balakian explained, while Armenian
Genocide scholarship has increased in recent years, what has been
missing is a Turkish voice. Akcam’s dozens of articles and several
books, Balakian stressed, have “helped to add that crucial piece
to the evolving discourse on the Armenian Genocide…and opened up
courageous spaces for young Turkish scholars who see the work he’s
done and begin to find their own way into their own country’s past.”

A critical look of the past is exactly what “The Young Turks’ Crime
Against Humanity” provides through Akcam’s analysis of scores of
original Ottoman telegraphs and internal memos. They make the case,
Akcam reiterated throughout the evening, not only for the Armenian
Genocide, but for the well-orchestrated plan to resettle and assimilate
Armenians, as well. As Akcam pointed to decoded texts, he presented one
of the book’s central arguments: that population statistics was a main
component of a “genocidal process.” By establishing this link between
demographic policy and the atrocities committed against Armenians at
the turn of the 20th century, Akcam has placed his work once again at
the forefront of genocide studies. The audience, who engaged Akcam
with a series of questions and comments following his presentation,
made this clear.

Attendees also had the opportunity to speak with Akcam at a
reception immediately after his talk. Very Reverend Father Simeon
Odabashian ended the event, noting that the Diocese was honored to
bring together two great intellectuals and thanking the evening’s
sponsors, AGBU Ararat, C.A.R.S., Eseyan-Getronagan Alumni, Hye Doon,
the Knights and Daughters of Vartan, the Tekeyan Cultural Association,
and Tibrevank Alumni.

Akcam also gave a talk at St. Leon Armenian Church in Fair Lawn, New
Jersey, the following evening, which was co-sponsored by AGBU Ararat
once again, the church and a number of local Armenian organizations.

Established in 1906, AGBU () is the world’s largest
non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City,
AGBU preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through
educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually touching
the lives of some 400,000 Armenians around the world.

CHAIRMAN OF CZECH REPUBLIC SENATE PROMISED TO EASE VISA PROVISION FOR ARMENIAN CITIZENS

ARMENPRESS
31 October, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS: Hovik Abrahamyan, Armenian National
Assembly Speaker in an official visit to Prague had a meeting with
Milan Shtekh Chairman of Czech Republic Parliament’s Senate on October
30. As Information and Public Relations department of the National
Assembly informed Armenpress, Hovik Abrahamyan stated he will turn to
the Czech Government in order Yerevan based diplomatic representation
will be enabled a chance to provide entry visas to citizens of Armenia.

Chairman of Czech Republic Parliament’s Senate noted he is well aware
of the oldest history of Armenia, country that adopted Christianity
as a state religion first. He stated he will seek ways to ease visa
provision for Armenian citizens . Besides Shtekh added Czech Republic
is ready to assist Armenia in the process of European integration. In
his words Czech businessmen are willing to make investments in Armenia.

LES MENACES DE L’AZERBAIDJAN D’ABATTRE DES AVIONS ARMENIENS NE SE TRADUIRONT PAS EN DES ACTIONS
Stephane

armenews.com
mercredi 31 octobre 2012

Un expert militaire armenien a minimise les menaces de l’Azerbaïdjan
d’abattre les avions armeniens qui utiliseraient l’aeroport de
Stepanakert.

Selon David Jamalian, Bakou abattrait les avions s’il etait sûr de
pas etre pas puni, mais il sait que la defense aerienne armenienne
exercerait des represailles a lam oindre tentative. ” C’est pourquoi
je ne pense pas que les menaces verbales de l’Azerbaïdjan peuissent
se traduire en actions ” a-t-il dit lors d’une conference de presse.

Selon lui, l’Armenie a assez de capacites pour mettre ” un coup
douloureux ” a l’Azerbaïdjan, si Bakou essaye de mettre a execution
ses menaces.

Commentant la declaration de la Turquie sur l’ouverture de l’aeroport
il a declare ” C’etait previsible. Cela a de nouveau confirme que le
tandem Azerbaidjani-turquie est une alliance militaire et strategique.

Des couloirs aeriens passent aussi a travers l’Armenie et nous avons
nos outils pour nuire aux interets d’autres parties ” a dit David
Jamalian.

mercredi 31 octobre 2012, Stephane ©armenews.com