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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
Armenian peacekeepers in Kosovo
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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
Armenian Air Force Ilyushin IL-76TD, r/n 76310 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia 23.07.2013
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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
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NKR Defense Army
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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
Russian 3624th Air Base, Erebuni, Yerevan, Armenia.
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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
May Russian Border Guards Be Asked To Leave Armenia?
Saturday, 03 August 2013,
Apparently one of the conditions of the Association Agreement between Armenia and the EU is to cancel the border guard services of Russia. Currently the Russian service guards the border of Armenia with Turkey and Iran. Association of Armenia with the EU is hardly possible when the Russian border guards are standing at the border.
As the Russian political scientists put it quite frankly, Russia guards not the border of Armenia but the external borders of the CIS. In other words, Armenia is not a sovereign state with sovereign border relations with neighbors but part of the political union of CIS. By the way, Azerbaijan is also a CIS member. And it means that if the EU goes for association with Armenia, it must demand that Armenian or European forces guard the borders of Armenia, not Russia.
Otherwise, it is impossible. Apparently, Russia has been let know. Apparently, this is the reason why the Armenian authorities are reluctant to publish the text of the Association Agreement. Perhaps the incident at the border when the Russian border guards shot dead the Turkish shepherd is determined by this. It is possible that this is a Russian-Turkish plot against passing the Armenian-Turkish border under the protection of Europe.
Guarding of the state border is one of the key conditions of a country’s sovereignty, and a country which makes a sovereign decision on association with a union cannot afford having another country guard its borders. It would be nonsense for Armenia, and this is what Russia fears most of all as it understands that its border guards will have to withdraw from the CIS borders.
Armenia may afford to remain in CSTO, may not nationalize strategic infrastructures handed over to Russia but Armenia and the EU may not enter into association as long as Russia guards the border of Armenia with Turkey which is a member of the EU Customs Union.
Russian border guards on the Armenian border with Turkey will not guarantee security of Armenia in case Turkey launches a war against Armenia. There is no reason to assume that in case Turkey attacks Armenia Russia will perceive it as an attack on the CIS and will fight against Turkey. And there is no reason to think that Turkey will not attack Armenia only because Russia guards the Armenian border.Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interestsComment
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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
Originally posted by londontsi View Post
Just another jibberish.
Right at the time of liberation of Shushi russians stopped turkish invasion of Armenia by a threat of WWIII and nucklear attack. Why would they spend all the money to keep thoose bases? And why europe does not see the necessity of russian bases there as a deterrant to war and invasion, similar to Nato bases in south korea because the war is not officially ended yet and especially turkish blockade is an act of war. So what makes this writer talk like this?
Tere is the smell of money from europe and oligarkhs and their proteje's cannot keep to themselfs. Russian money is allready divided. European is smelling soo sweet. Anybody thinking that european association is going to bring prosperity to Armenians is daydreaming. All the money will be split, fraudulently swallowed up and flown to the accounts of oligarkhs in overseas(offshore accounts). Old or new, european money/rich ones, who don't give a xxxx about national security and will fly to europe in an instant, when a war erupts. We will be left alone...Last edited by Hakob; 08-04-2013, 08:50 AM.Comment
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