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Azerbaijan Boosts Defense Budget, Warns Armenia
Azerbaijan will increase its defense spending by nearly one third next year to build up its strength in a long-running territorial dispute with Armenia, President Ilham Aliev said on Monday.
He told a government meeting that the military budget will grow by $300 million to $1.3 billion in 2008.
"The country will allocate funds to buy new hardware, weapons and ammunition, to create a powerful military-industrial complex and improve the professionalism of the military," Aliev said. "We are creating a powerful army."
The message of the 45-year-old president was primarily targeted at Armenia, the main backer of Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
"The insincere behavior of Armenian occupation forces, dragging out the negotiation process, forces us to devote greater attention to military issues," Aliev said. "Azerbaijan must be ready to liberate its lands by any means."
The loss of Karabakh and a large swathe of territory around it has become a major humiliation for oil-rich Azerbaijan, whose economy has been one of the world's fastest-growing in the past few years.
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Armenia is a small, landlocked, and lacks oil and major natural resources. The question is, how will the Armenians of the diaspora make up for this shortcoming? Is all diasporas care about going after their "B-O-Zzzutyun", or are they going to do something about this?
WAYS TO HELP ARMENIA:
1) GO TOUR ARMENIA AND SPEND LOTS OF MONEY THERE. you have time for las vega.
2)don't wanna go there? FIND AND SPONSOR A FAMILY IN ARMENIA. SEND THEM MONEY EVERY MONTH. SEND MONEY TO ORPHANAGES. you don't mind flushing your hard earned dollars down the toilet in vegas.
3)BUY PRODUCTS MADE IN ARMENIA. even if you don't like them, buy them and throw them in the trash. SUPPORT ARMENIA BY BUYING PRODUTS MADE IN ARMENIA.
NO MORE EXCUSES. may God forbid anyone ask you to go fight and spill blood on the battlefield. so if you, comfortably in the western nations, don't care, then what, may i ask, makes you armenians?
Azerbaijan will increase its defense spending by nearly one third next year to build up its strength in a long-running territorial dispute with Armenia, President Ilham Aliev said on Monday.
He told a government meeting that the military budget will grow by $300 million to $1.3 billion in 2008.
"The country will allocate funds to buy new hardware, weapons and ammunition, to create a powerful military-industrial complex and improve the professionalism of the military," Aliev said. "We are creating a powerful army."
The message of the 45-year-old president was primarily targeted at Armenia, the main backer of Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
"The insincere behavior of Armenian occupation forces, dragging out the negotiation process, forces us to devote greater attention to military issues," Aliev said. "Azerbaijan must be ready to liberate its lands by any means."
The loss of Karabakh and a large swathe of territory around it has become a major humiliation for oil-rich Azerbaijan, whose economy has been one of the world's fastest-growing in the past few years.
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Armenia is a small, landlocked, and lacks oil and major natural resources. The question is, how will the Armenians of the diaspora make up for this shortcoming? Is all diasporas care about going after their "B-O-Zzzutyun", or are they going to do something about this?
WAYS TO HELP ARMENIA:
1) GO TOUR ARMENIA AND SPEND LOTS OF MONEY THERE. you have time for las vega.
2)don't wanna go there? FIND AND SPONSOR A FAMILY IN ARMENIA. SEND THEM MONEY EVERY MONTH. SEND MONEY TO ORPHANAGES. you don't mind flushing your hard earned dollars down the toilet in vegas.
3)BUY PRODUCTS MADE IN ARMENIA. even if you don't like them, buy them and throw them in the trash. SUPPORT ARMENIA BY BUYING PRODUTS MADE IN ARMENIA.
NO MORE EXCUSES. may God forbid anyone ask you to go fight and spill blood on the battlefield. so if you, comfortably in the western nations, don't care, then what, may i ask, makes you armenians?
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