Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[ashot24]

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Armenian Military Downplays Reservist Call-Up

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1990725.html

I believe it's very important to have people well trained or at least prepared in case anything happens. I am however not 100% sure that this is only a security measure or it carries the purpose we are being told, I am thinking that this is a serious approach to the intensified broke of cease-fire by the Azeries (98 only last week), the recent attacks on our border in the Tavush marz, and well, skirmishes in general that may escalate into something bigger someday and we need to be prepared. We have to intensify our border security and be ready for anything, our people has to be ready for anything

I also had a question, in the article it says:

The latest call-up comes amid rumors, stoked by some media, that the army has been put on high alert in anticipation of an Azerbaijani offensive. The Defense Ministry has categorically denied those reports.

A senior Nagorno-Karabakh security official, Colonel Levon Chalian, on Monday dismissed as a “provocation” pro-opposition media claims that the authorities in Stepanakert have banned local male residents from leaving the territory. “We are performing our duties as usual,” he told RFE/RL’s Armenian service. “There are no restrictive instructions.”

Has someone read such rumors spread by the pro-opposition media, or has any link to any of them?

[ninetoyadome]

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Azerbaijan Rules Out Non-Aggression Pact With Armenia

Azerbaijan – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, undated
22.03.2010
Azerbaijan rejected over the weekend an Armenian proposal to sign of a non-aggression pact before the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying that Yerevan should first ensure the liberation of occupied Azerbaijani territories.

President Serzh Sarkisian made the proposal in an interview with Euronews television that was aired late on Friday. “That would create an atmosphere of trust in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh,” he said. “And in those conditions, we would start negotiations over a settlement.”

“If the head of Armenia wants to eliminate the threat of use of force [by Azerbaijan,] then let him eliminate the causes that can lead to the use of force,” a spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Elkhan Polukhov, said on Saturday. “Namely, to withdraw Armenian forces from Azerbaijan’s occupied territories.”

According to Azerbaijani media, Polukhov said Baku will therefore retain its “right to restore territorial integrity” which he said is guaranteed by international law. Azerbaijani leaders have repeatedly threatened to solve the Karabakh conflict by military means if the protracted peace talks with Armenia fail to yield an agreement.

Non-use of force or threat of force as well as territorial integrity and peoples’ right to self-determination are the three fundamental principles of a Karabakh settlement favored by international mediators and upheld by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe at a ministerial conference held in Athens late last year. The foreign ministers of both Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a relevant declaration that was adopted by the forum.

Sarkisian called for an Armenian-Azerbaijani agreement on non-use of force in response to a question about Baku’s claims that it will never come to terms with the loss of Karabakh. He stood by the official Armenian line that Karabakh has never been part of an independent Azerbaijan and should therefore remain under Armenian control.

Sarkisian did not comment on the mediators’ recently amended basic principles of Karabakh peace and chances of their acceptance by the conflicting parties in the course of this year.

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1990716.html

[ashot24]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan Rules Out Non-Aggression Pact With Armenia

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1990716.html

And we are the ones who are unconstructive...

[burjuin]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

Armenian peacekeepers in Kosovo:

[Eddo211]

Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

Are there plans to include Diaspora volunteers in this training and/or request for future recruitment?

[Mukuch]

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Are there plans to include Diaspora volunteers in this training and/or request for future recruitment?

Don’t think so. Unless you are Armenian citizen and live (registered) in Armenia. It is not about volunteers it is about military reserve. I do not think they will accept any volunteers unless you have a serious military (combat) experience. Even in that case the only way to get to Armenian Army is to be contracted for professional service. The volunteers time is in past. And I hope there never will be need for civilian people to live their normal lives and fight for survival of the country.

[UrMistake]

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Don’t think so. Unless you are Armenian citizen and live (registered) in Armenia. It is not about volunteers it is about military reserve. I do not think they will accept any volunteers unless you have a serious military (combat) experience. Even in that case the only way to get to Armenian Army is to be contracted for professional service. The volunteers time is in past. And I hope there never will be need for civilian people to live their normal lives and fight for survival of the country.

Im sure there is a way to enter the army,there will be always need fresh blood, especially people with determination and willingness as they dropped everything home and arrive to Armenia.

Come on did any one believe the feday movement to ocurre in soviet times?

[Mukuch]

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Im sure there is a why to enter the army,there will be always need fresh blood, especially people with determination and willingness as they dropped everything home and arrive to Armenia.

Come on did any one believe the feday movement to ocurre in soviet times?

I hope that will not be needed. But if the war happens I think we all have right to defend our country with all means we have.

[Federate]

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I hope that will not be needed. But if the war happens I think we all have right to defend our country with all means we have.

They won't turn anyone down in case of war. It is in Armenian military tradition to have irregular units for sabotage and guerrilla tactics and volunteers will come in handy for those.

I found a cool article about these detachments during the NKR war (and before that). Check this article on Wikipedia, especially the bottom which details the NKR war units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_irregular_units

[Eddo211]

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Im sure there is a why to enter the army,there will be always need fresh blood, especially people with determination and willingness as they dropped everything home and arrive to Armenia.

Come on did any one believe the feday movement to ocurre in soviet times?

in case of a conflict volunteers should make their way to Stepanakert as a starting point.......with or without government help .