Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

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YEREVAN (News.az)–The Armenian government has approved a draft resolution, authored by a deputy from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, calling on parliament to declare Azerbaijan the initiator of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The bill, titled “Statement on Azerbaijan’s Responsibility for transformation the Karabakh problem resolution into military confrontation,” was authored and submitted by MP Armen Rustamian, who serves as the chairman of the ARF’s Supreme Council of Armenia
The resolution underscores Azerbaijan’s responsibility for the escalation of the conflict, as well as the need to counter Baku’s misinformation campaign with all the possibilities of parliamentary diplomacy, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan told a sitting of the government on Thursday.
The resolution notes that Azerbaijan consistently distorts the truth and facts and tries to shape a biased and incorrect view of the conflict and its root among the international community, Kocharyan said.

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Vladimir Kazimirov: It's time to deal with Aliyev’s war threats.....

I agree, There is enough reason to pre-empt in securing more buffer zones in response to latest threats.Think of it this way............it would be the last think they would expect.

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Armenian Parliament Endorses Troop Deployment To Afghanistan
Dec 8th, 2009


Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian

YEREVAN -- The Armenian parliament today overwhelmingly approved the deployment to Afghanistan in February of 40 servicemen to serve in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.

The force will comprise an army platoon, three staff officers, and one military doctor.

They will serve under German command protecting an airport in Konduz, according to Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian.

Armenia and NATO signed the agreement on the deployment last month after two years of talks.

The Armenian government does not aspire to NATO membership.

http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenia...n/1898715.html

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Forthy combat troops (not trainers like some other countries), that is more than Armenia has ever send, I wonder how many of them are counter-IED experts (one of the things that we are really good at), their mission seems to be security of Konduz airport.

Wish them all the luck, success, and a safe return.

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Armenia dismisses Azerbajani claims of undermanning in army
Sat 12 December 2009 | 06:45 GMT Text size:


Armenian Defence Ministry
Information on staff shortages in the Armenian army is incorrect, according to a statement released yesterday by the Armenian Defence Ministry.

“The Defence Ministry says that the autumn conscription is proceeding on schedule and the troops are manned 70%," the statement said.

The Armenian Defence Ministry also dismissed comments by Azerbaijani Defence Ministry spokesman Eldar Sabiroglu that the Armenian side had suffered twice the losses of the Azerbaijani side. Two Armenian soldiers have been wounded due to the violation of the ceasefire by Azerbaijan in the past three months, Sabiroglu said.

“It is unclear how the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry could reach this conclusion if it does not publish the names of the people killed or wounded either on the Armenian or Azerbaijani side. Even the Azerbaijani media doubt this. Sabiroglu’s self-deception was released only in Russian which proves it is pure propaganda," the statement says.

The Armenian Defence Ministry reiterates that the Armenian armed forces have a high level of combat-readiness and the arms necessary to resist any attack.

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azeri response
Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry response to Armenians' false arguments
Sat 12 December 2009 | 07:41 GMT Text size:


Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan
There is no doubt about poor state in Armenia.

The statements made by spokesman for Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry Eldar Sabiroghlu are not bare statements.

They are based on facts. They rely on our own sources and facts presented by Armenians, said representative of the news service for Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry Teymur Abdullayev.

"Over a million of people left Armenia due to its isolation. By our information, Armenia is not able to form about 10 once active military units", Abdullayev said.

As an example of the established hard situation in the Armenian Defense Ministry, the representative of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry listed approval of the draft law "On the use of transport means for defense" and the package of amendments to the law "On mobilization" by Armenian parliamentarians.
The proposed bills set the order of using armed forces to defend cargo and passenger transport means registered on the names of the state and municipal structures, facilities, organizations, individual entrepreneurs and belonging to citizens.

According to Abdullayev, there is no doubt about the poor state of Armenia.

"Imagine the poor state of the Armenian armed forces and their technique if they are ready to use civil cargo and passenger cars", Abdullayev said.

Notably, the recent statements of spokesman for the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry Eldar Sabiroghlu about the Armenian armed forces bewildered Armenia. In the result, the Armenian Defense Ministry made a statement about the high combat efficiency of the Armenian armed forces in an attempt to rehabilitate its image in the eyes of Armenian public.

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i think we have to believe what the azeris say about the Armenian state because they should all that proof.

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Military exercises in Armenia, 2009. Part1

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Military exercises in Armenia, 2009. Part2

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Military exercises in Armenia, 2009. Part3

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Dashnak leader gives Azeris a lesson in history, reiterates opposition to Armenian-Turkey protocols

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Hovhannisyan discards Azerbaijan’s war rhetoric as “not serious”.
By GEORG KHACHATURYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
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The leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s faction in parliament, Vahan Hovhannisyan, discards as “not serious” the bellicose rhetoric routinely heard from Azerbaijan’s military top brass.

The latest such statement (of several surfacing since September 1) was made on Saturday by Azerbaijan’s defense minister Safar Abiyev, who – ignoring OSCE persuasion against such rhetoric – again spoke about the possibility of resolving the Karabakh conflict through the use of force. “If negotiations produce no result, a war with Armenia is inevitable,” the Azeri minister said bluntly, as reported by Azerbaijani media.

Armenia and Azerbaijan continue their internationally mediated talks and are said to be close to agreement on basic principles of settling the longstanding conflict.

Several international documents signed by Yerevan and Baku, in particular the November 2008 Moscow declaration of the two countries’ presidents co-sponsored by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the latest statement on Karabakh by the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE member states adopted in Athens on December 2, call on the parties to the Karabakh conflict to abstain from the use of force or even threats of the use of force in the process of settling the protracted dispute.

Commenting at ArmeniaNow’s request on the statement by the Azerbaijani minister, Hovhannisiayn, who headed the Armenian parliament’s standing committee on defense, national security and internal affairs in 1999-2003, said: “I can reply to Abiyev using the words of Spartan King Leonidas (V century BC), who retorted to Persian King Xerxes’s demand of surrender by saying: ‘Come and get it’.” (The Greeks eventually proved victorious).

At a press conference on Monday, Hovhannisyan also spoke about steps that ARF Dashnaktsutyun is going to take to attempt preventing the ratification of fence-mending agreements with Turkey. (Yerevan and Ankara signed protocols on establishing diplomatic ties and developing bilateral relations in Zurich, Switzerland, on October 10 this year. The agreements need ratification in the parliaments of both Armenia and Turkey to enter the stage of implementation.)

Hovhannisyan said that the party was going to stage numerous actions before and on January 12, the day when the Constitutional Court of Armenia is set to consider the constitutionality of the agreements.

“I can assure you, it will be very restless in the country during those days,” the parliamentarian warned, without elaborating.

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It was just the other day I and several users mentioned in another thread the dangers of the loophole Azerbaijan has with the Armenian-Iranian border.
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Armenian Spy Case Sent To Court


Law-enforcement authorities in Armenia said on Tuesday that they have finished a criminal investigation into two men who were arrested recently on charges of spying for Azerbaijan.

The National Security Service (NSS) reported the arrests on October 21, identifying one of the accused men as retired Lieutenant-Colonel Gevorg Hayrapetian who it said had been ousted from the Armenian military for a “blatant violation of military and disciplinary rules.” It described the other suspect as a “foreign national” who liaised between Hayrapetian and Azerbaijani intelligence.

Armenia’s Office of the Prosecutor-General disclosed the foreigner’s identity on Tuesday. In a written statement, it said B. Bagheri is an Iranian citizen of Azeri descent who arrived in Armenia in September to pass “yet another assignment” from Azerbaijani intelligence on to Hayrapetian.

The Armenian, for his part, handed Bagheri “materials that could be used for anti-Armenian propaganda,” the law-enforcement agency said, adding that NSS officers found and confiscated them when the Iranian was about to cross the Armenian-Iranian border. Bagheri was arrested on the spot, it added.

The two suspects were charged under different articles of the Armenian Criminal Code that deal with espionage. Hayrapetian will face between 10 and 15 years in prison if he is convicted of high treason. He is also accused of illegally possessing weapons and ammunition that were allegedly found in his apartment.

With the criminal case shrouded in secrecy, it is not yet clear whether the arrested men have pleaded guilty to the accusations. The Azerbaijani authorities dismissed their arrests as a “cheap Armenian provocation.” “We don’t know that person,” a spokesman for the Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security, said in October, referring to Hayrapetian.

According to the Armenian prosecutors’ statement, Hayrapetian was recruited by Azerbaijani special services in April. It claimed that he provided them with “secret information about the combat-readiness and strength of the Armenian armed forces” as well as “anti-Armenian propaganda” material. The NSS has sent the case to a district court in Yerevan, concluded the statement.

Both Azerbaijan and Armenia have occasionally arrested and prosecuted individuals for allegedly spying for each other since the early 1990s. In one such case, a retired Russian army officer who had fought on the Armenian side during the 1992-1994 war in Nagorno-Karabakh was arrested in late 2006 and subsequently convicted of passing Armenian “state secrets” on to Azerbaijan. The ethnic Tatar man, Rustem Valiakhmetov, initially confessed to the charges but retracted his pre-trial testimony in court, saying that it had been given under duress.

And in June 2005, a Russian-born Armenian citizen, Andrey Maziev, was likewise convicted of high treason and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Maziev pleaded guilty to the charges, unlike four other ethnic Russians who received lengthy jail sentences on similar charges in January 2004.

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1904811.html

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They shouldve executed them on site, send a message to others
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OSCE monitoring interrupted because of Azeri fire
Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:27 |
Karabakh Peace Process
/Public Radio of Armenia/ The recurrent OSCE monitoring of the contact line between the Armed Forces of NKR and Azerbaijan was interrupted today because of the fire opened from the Azerbaijani side in the direction of the members of the monitoring group.

The accident took place because the Azerbaijani side failed to lead the monitoring group to its front positions, thus violating the agreement reached earlier.

The shots were registered by members of the monitoring group, Coordinator of the OSC Office, Lieutenant Colonel Imre Palatinus (Hungary), as well as the Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Irji Aberle (the Czech Republic) and Vladimir Chuntulov (Bulgaria). They decided to interrupt the monitoring for security reasons.

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what a shock they blame us

Today.Az » Politics » Armenian fire interrupts monitoring on Azerbaijan-Armenia contact line

15 December 2009 [15:29] - Today.Az

Armenian armed forces have violated ceasefire during the OSCE monitoring on contact line of the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops.

An incident occurred during the monitoring held under mandate of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office the Personal Representative on the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops near Garakhanbayli village of Fuzuli region of Azerbaijan.

Spokesman for Defense Ministry, lieutenant-colonel Eldar Sabiroglu said the monitoring was interrupted after the Armenian army opened fire.

Field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office are investigating the causes of the incident.

Field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Peter Ki and Jaslan Nurtazin were to conduct the monitoring in Azerbaijani side, Imre Palatinus, Irge Aberle and Vladimir Chountulov in the opposite side of the contact line.

/APA/

URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/58220.html