Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

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Քառօրյա պատերազմի ընթացքում հայկական կողմը 800 հեկտար տարածք է կորցրել. Սերժ Սարգսյան Նյութի աղբյուրը` http://yn.am/?military&p=64857&l=am.

From what I read ,his saying we lost 800,000 hectares. Correct me if I misunderstood..

[burjuin]

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Karabakh President visits Defense Army training ground
16:54, 17.05.2016
Region:Karabakh
Theme: Politics


STEPANAKERT. – Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) President Bako Sahakyan on Tuesday visited an NKR Defense Army training ground.

Sahakyan met with the personnel of a battalion comprising members of the Artsakh Union of Freedom Fighters, and got familiarized with their daily lives and course of military service.

Central Information Department of the Office of the NKR President informed Armenian News-NEWS.am the Artsakh President welcomed this initiative, and he underscored the Karabakh War veterans’ participation in defending the Motherland.

NKR Defense Minister Levon Mnatsakanyan, head of the Artsakh Union of Freedom Fighters Samvel Karapetyan, Chairperson of the NKR National Assembly Standing Committee on Defense, Security and Legal Issues Zhanna Galstyan, and several other officials accompanied Bako Sahakyan.

Armenia News - NEWS.am

http://news.am/eng/news/327567.html

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Armenia, Azerbaijan Pledge To Honor Ceasefire, President Sarkisian Questions Aliyev’s Commitment

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to work out safeguards against ceasefire violations around Nagorno-Karabakh and resume their search for a compromise peace deal during talks in Vienna mediated by the United States, Russia and France late on Monday.

Serzh Sarkisian and Ilham Aliyev will meet again as early as next month in an attempt to revive the Karabakh peace process, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and France’s State Secretary for Europe Affairs Harlem Desir said after co-hosting the talks.

“The Presidents reiterated their commitment to the ceasefire and the peaceful settlement of the conflict,” read a joint statement issued by them. “To reduce the risk of further violence, they agreed to finalize in the shortest possible time an OSCE investigative mechanism.”

“The Presidents also agreed to the expansion of the existing Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson in Office,” it said, referring to a small multinational team monitoring the ceasefire regime in the conflict zone.

The U.S., Russian and French mediators have for years pressed the conflicting sides to accept these confidence-building measures, hoping to reverse a steady increase in the intensity and frequency of armed incidents on the Armenian-Azerbaijani frontlines. They have been backed by the Armenian side but effectively rejected by Azerbaijan until recently. The latter has claimed that the proposed measures would only cement the status quo favorable to the Armenians.

Meanwhile, President Sarkisian questioned Azerbaijan’s commitment to the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone on Tuesday after he and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev agreed on confidence-building measures designed to prevent fresh fighting there.

Sarkisian said at the same time that he is largely “satisfied” with his talks with Aliyev. “The president of Azerbaijan assured that his country and he personally does not aim to solve any issue through hostilities,” he told Armenia’s leading TV channels while flying back to Yerevan. “That is good but it gives us little faith because there have been many conversations before but the fact is that agreements have not been honored [by Azerbaijan] for several years.”

“But we cannot be guided only by our presumptions and predictions because war is not the best solution,” said Sarkisian. “So we will see how events develop.”

“We should not pay too much attention to those agreements considering our past experience,” cautioned Sarkisian. “We have had 20 meetings [with Aliyev.] We agreed on many things during those meetings. But on his return to Baku the president of Azerbaijan made totally different statements. Time will tell how events develop this time around.”

“The important thing for us is the following: the [U.S., Russian and French] co-chairs should once again see that our aim is not to maintain the status quo and wage a perpetual war,” he added.

Even so, the Armenian leader was hopeful that ceasefire violations will now decrease. “I don’t think that they will end starting from tomorrow,” he said. “But I hope that things will be much calmer than they have been until now.”

[HajiHabibli]

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Քառօրյա պատերազմի ընթացքում հայկական կողմը 800 հեկտար տարածք է կորցրել. Սերժ Սարգսյան Նյութի աղբյուրը` http://yn.am/?military&p=64857&l=am.

From what I read ,his saying we lost 800,000 hectares. Correct me if I misunderstood..

You misunderstood. He said the entire "buffer zone" is 800,000 hectares and we lost 800.

[ASALA2116]

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So our President just admitted that we lost just under 2000 acres of land. (800 hectares). The best way to picture that is one hectare =2 football fields. 800 hectares = 1600 football fields. Is that a loss. If no , then you need to get checked up.

[ASALA2116]

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What's gorcrel enk 800 hui chap?

[Haykakan]

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So our President just admitted that we lost just under 2000 acres of land. (800 hectares). The best way to picture that is one hectare =2 football fields. 800 hectares = 1600 football fields. Is that a loss. If no , then you need to get checked up.

That is about four average size farms. Not the end of the world guys.

[Azad]

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What's gorcrel enk 800 hui chap?

Baron ASALA2116, see attached closed up and relative to the whole Artsakh white line borders.

[HajiHabibli]

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So our President just admitted that we lost just under 2000 acres of land. (800 hectares). The best way to picture that is one hectare =2 football fields. 800 hectares = 1600 football fields. Is that a loss. If no , then you need to get checked up.

Well look, we've covered this here since early April. We all knew a couple of positions were lost. But, again, positions have been lost and gained for the past 20 years. This isn't the first time. Also, it's not as if they took a town or a village. Just some shift on the line of contact.

Ideally I'm sure none of us want to give them even a single grain of dirt, but in the large scheme of things this isn't really a big deal.

So no, it's not a loss.

[Azad]

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I would be more worried on prices of crude oil creeping up almost $48.5 instead of couple small hills. Can we put this to rest?