Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

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Armenian peacekeepers in Kosovo:

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An Azerbaijani soldier was killed in a car crash on Thursday, local media reported, citing the press office of country’s traffic police.

The military car overturned in a crash that occurred in Zeynalabdin Tagiyev village some 30-35 kilometers from Baku, chief of the press office of the traffic police of Azerbaijan, Kyamran Aliev, told media. He said that one soldier was killed and two other were wounded in the crash when the car overturned while driving across the bridge.

This year, two crashes that left casualties among military of Azerbaijan, occurred in April: on April 3, Army of Azerbaijan lost 5 soldiers (12 others were wounded) in the biggest car crash that occurred in Lerik region. Later, on May 19, in Akstafinsky region a lieutenant was killed and four ensigns were sounded and rushed to hospitals. In June, a Chief of Staff was killed in a car crash in Shekinsky region.

The two who were injured have died as well.
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Two soldiers injured in traffic accident in Azerbaijan die in hospital
24 September 2010 [13:07] - Today.Az


Two soldiers injured as a result of a traffic accident in Azerbaijan died in hospital, Azerbaijani Defence Ministry's deputy spokesman Teymur Abdullayev said.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry's military vehicle overturned in the Zeynalabdin Tagiev settlement about 30-35 kilometers from Baku. As a result one soldier died and two were injured, State Traffic Police Spokesman Kamran Aliyev told Trend.

The injured Mazahir Gasimov, born in 1975, Sabuhi Shirinov, born in 1978, died in hospital, where they were taken after the accident. The military vehicle overturned at the turn of the bridge. The fact is under investigation.


/Trend/

Related article:

One dead, two injured as military car overturns in Azerbaijan

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Russia Speaks Out Against Turkish Involvement in Karabakh


MOSCOW (RFE/RL)—A senior Russian Foreign Ministry official Friday spoke out against Turkey’s involvement in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, urging Ankara to stay out of the conflict, mediated exclusively by the US, Russian, and French co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, RFE/RL’s Armenia service reported.
In an interview with the Azerbaijani APA news agency, Andrei Kelin, head of a ministry department on former Soviet states, made clear that Moscow is against Turkish involvement in the co-chairs’ activities.
“Turkey has attempted to actively participate in this endeavor lately,” the Russian Foreign Ministry official was quoted by RFE/RL as telling APA. “We consider that counterproductive because we have a unique situation in which the positions of the USA, France and Russia converge and … this allows us to guarantee that future agreements will not collapse. And France and the USA support us on this.”
Turkey has stepped up its interest in the Karabakh conflict over the past year as part of its efforts to allay Azerbaijan’s concerns over its rapprochement with Armenia. Ankara now makes the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations conditional on the conflict’s resolution.
Armenia rejects this linkage and remains strongly opposed to any Turkish role in the Karabakh peace process.
Kelin said that Turkey’s “counterproductive” involvement in the peace talks is making a final resolution to the issue more difficult and, according to RFE/RL, warned that continued lack progress in the negotiations could increase the likelihood of another full-scale armed conflict.
Kelin was quoted by RFE/RL as saying that the conflicting parties still have “fundamental difference” on some of the key basic principles of a Karabakh settlement favored by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs. He declined to elaborate on those principles, saying only that “there are really not many of them” and that both sides should display a “political will” to overcome these disagreements.
“If we don’t do that, then the situation will probably continue to escalate,” Kelin said. “It is already quite tense, skirmishes on the line of contact are not subsiding, there are more and more [armed] incidents, and both sides are beefing up forces. Therefore, there are fears that sooner or later this escalation will develop into something more large-scale.”
The European Union’s special envoy to the South Caucasus, Peter Semneby, issued a similar warning during a recent visit to the conflict zone. Speaking to Reuters, Semneby said intensified skirmishes there risk spiraling out of control and called for the strengthening of the ceasefire between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.
The U.S., Russian and French mediators regularly urge the parties to respect the Russian-mediated truce that stopped the first Karabakh war in 1994. Nonetheless, truce violations along the “line of contact” around Karabakh appear to have become more frequent in recent months.
Armenia and Azerbaijan claim to largely agree with the proposed basic principles of a Karabakh settlement, while making diametrically opposite interpretations of their essence. Baku says it will never accept the loss of Karabakh, while Yerevan rules out any settlement that would place the Armenian territory back under Azerbaijani rule.
The three Minsk Group co-chairs held on Wednesday separate meetings with the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers in New York to discuss the next steps to be taken ahead of the OSCE’s December summit in Kazakhstan. Whether or not they hope to achieve more progress in the stalled peace process in time for the summit is not yet clear.
Interviewed by several Azerbaijani media outlets late last month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow wants the parties to sign an interim framework agreement that would leave out the “two or three issues” that have not yet been agreed upon. He said both Washington and Paris support this idea.
Lavrov did not specify whether this is what Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed to his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts during their trilateral talks in Saint Petersburg last June. The Armenian side reacted positively to Medvedev’s undisclosed proposal, whereas Baku rejected it as unacceptable.

http://asbarez.com/85743/russia-speaks-out-against-turkish-involvement-in-karabakh/

A clear warning to Turkey?

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A clear warning to Turkey?

As it seems.....they know that Turkey is trying to compromise the peace process, specifically the new interim proposal by Russia (backed by US and France) that Armenia has accepted but Azerbaijan has not. It has been a year since Aliyev asked Ankara's help to get involved and it seems clear to me now that the reason is to destabilize the fragile ceasefire with their help, hopefully blamed on Armenians as aggressors, in order to avoid rejecting outright all peace offers on the table and not be seen as the warmongers that they are.

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Azerbaijan-made mortar demonstrated in international exhibition in South African Republic

Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense Industry has demonstrated 60 mm dual-purpose mortar in “Africa Aerospace Defense-2010(AAD-2010)” exhibition held in Cape Town, South African Republic, APA reports. It is a firepower and range force multiplier.

The mortar has been made by Azerbaijani specialists and presented to foreign trade as 60 mm dual-purpose mortar. Last time, it was demonstrated at SOFEX-2010 military exhibition in May held in Jordan.


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Another one of 9879832239 reasons why we must never let go of the liberated territories.
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Water Complicates Karabakh Peace Talks
Armenians fear losing important source of water in negotiations over future of the territory.
By Karine Ohanyan - Caucasus
CRS Issue 559,
17 Sep 10

The Armenian residents of the town they call Karvachar boast of the quality and quantity of their water.

“We have the most delicious and cleanest water. It does not need filtering. You can drink it straight from the river. Apart from this, in Karvachar, unlike in many regions and towns of Karabakh, the water comes round-the-clock,” said Alexander Kananyan, who has lived in the town for nine years.

And their water is valued beyond the town. Nagorny Karabakh, a state carved out of Soviet Azerbaijan by local Armenians, relies on this region for more than 80 per cent of its drinking supply.

The trouble, however, is that Karvachar has another name: Kelbajar, by which it is known to ethnic Azeris, as well as on maps of the region from Soviet times and before. Unlike most of Karabakh, the town did not form part of the Autonomous Region of Nagorny Karabakh within Soviet Azerbaijan, and that means it is treated separately in peace talks currently going on.

Therefore, experts say that if Baku gets its way, the town will be returned to its control whatever the fate of Karabakh, which has declared independence but not been recognised as an independent state by any members of the United Nations.

"The peace deal currently under discussion, like almost all others, envisages the return of almost all the seven Azerbaijani regions which are now wholly or partially under Armenian military control in exchange for some kind of 'interim international status' for Nagorny Karabakh itself and the promise of a popular vote in the future on its final status,” said Thomas de Waal, an expert on Caucasus issues at the Carnegie Endowment’s Russia and Eurasia Programme.

“There will be a special status for Lachin, which is the land bridge between Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh and it is anticipated that Kelbajar, the largest Azerbaijan region under Armenian control, which is strategically situated between Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh, will be handed back later than the other provinces.”

But Karabakh Armenians insist even that is unacceptable. Leaving aside the fact that under its constitution, the republic claims all territory that it currently controls, not just the territory of the Soviet-era Autonomous Region, they see the district between Karabakh and Armenia as crucial to their security.

“The territory of Karabakh within the administrative border of the Autonomous Region is extremely vulnerable from the point of view of securing its water resources. The lion’s share of water resources in the former Autonomous Region has its origin outside of its administrative limits. The rivers Terter and Khachen, which start within the Karvachar region, bring in 83.4 per cent of the yearly average of Karabakh’s main water supply,” said David Babayan, who has studied water issues in Karabakh for several years.

“Today, Nagorny Karabakh is in a position to almost entirely provide for its own environmental security and its water resources, and in this context the Karvachar region plays a key role… Therefore, if we lose this region the water security of Karabakh would be under serious threat.”

Most of the present-day residents of the town and its neighbouring region are ethnic Armenians who fled areas currently controlled by Azeri troops during the Karabakh war, which ended with a ceasefire in 1994 but which has not been resolved.

Peace talks are chaired by France, Russia and the United States, who make up the so-called Minsk Group, but have not moved forward significantly in the face of irreconcilable differences between the two sides.

Azerbaijan insists on regaining control of the territory it lost but local residents like Marianna Hovsepyan, who moved to the town from Sumgait, the scene of three days of anti-Armenian riots in 1988 that marked the start of major bloodshed between the two ethnic communities, are adamant they would never allow that to happen.

“How could you even consider it,” she asked. “We with difficulty built here a second house, got our lives together, and now it’s not clear what’s waiting for us. This will never happen. Even when Karabakh president Bako Sahakyan came to Karvachar, he said, ‘As long as Karabakh exists and I want to assure you all that it will always exist, Karvachar will be part of it.’”

Local residents well understand the importance of their town to the future of the whole South Caucasus.

“Of course, the region has a strategic significance, because water is an important resource of the future, and not just of the present day. In worsening environmental conditions in the future, it will be a necessary and expensive resource,” said Alexander Kananyan, a 36-year-old a local resident.

“And of course, I’m not even talking about the military-strategic significance of the Karvachar region. This it the highest and most invulnerable part of Karabakh, and as a result whoever owns it, owns all of Karabakh.”

Karine Ohanyan is a freelance journalist in Stepanakert.

http://iwpr.net/report-news/water-complicates-karabakh-peace-talks

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Uh. Why are we, as winner of the war, negotiating for peace with the Azeris, the losers ? , if this was turkey or Israel or USA or Russia that won, there would be no talk of returning land.
If we give up karvachar and Berdzor, then we can kiss armenians of Arstakh goodbye.