Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
Wikileaks: Ilham Aliyev did not trust the Russian arms and asks U.S. for help
According to the website Wikileaks, during a meeting with former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse, the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has asked for Washington's military aid.
"We want to see real help and benefit. The U.S. government should respond to our request to purchase defensive arms, particularly in the area of defense, not a threat to Armenia. We want to protect themselves from possible attack. Azerbaijan does not trust the weapons acquired from Russia as it is under the "electronic control". We need weapons that are not under the control of Iran and Russia - said in an interview with U.S. Ambassador Aliyev, the newspaper Azadlyg.
Security expert S. Akbar believes that if the information the site are true, this indicates a serious contradiction between the official and unofficial foreign policy of Azerbaijan. Noting that this policy does not meet the national interests of Azerbaijan, S. Akbar said that in his time Baku rejected the U.S. proposal to join the list of countries under the U.S. defense shield.
"In the 2007th year in a letter to Ilham Aliyev, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice even said that the U.S. is ready to sign an agreement to provide air security in Azerbaijan. However, to this day the agreement is not signed. On the contrary, is not planned progress in the issue of cooperation with NATO "- said the Azeri expert.
/ Panorama.am /
Wikileaks: Ilham Aliyev did not trust the Russian arms and asks U.S. for help
According to the website Wikileaks, during a meeting with former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse, the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has asked for Washington's military aid.
"We want to see real help and benefit. The U.S. government should respond to our request to purchase defensive arms, particularly in the area of defense, not a threat to Armenia. We want to protect themselves from possible attack. Azerbaijan does not trust the weapons acquired from Russia as it is under the "electronic control". We need weapons that are not under the control of Iran and Russia - said in an interview with U.S. Ambassador Aliyev, the newspaper Azadlyg.
Security expert S. Akbar believes that if the information the site are true, this indicates a serious contradiction between the official and unofficial foreign policy of Azerbaijan. Noting that this policy does not meet the national interests of Azerbaijan, S. Akbar said that in his time Baku rejected the U.S. proposal to join the list of countries under the U.S. defense shield.
"In the 2007th year in a letter to Ilham Aliyev, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice even said that the U.S. is ready to sign an agreement to provide air security in Azerbaijan. However, to this day the agreement is not signed. On the contrary, is not planned progress in the issue of cooperation with NATO "- said the Azeri expert.
/ Panorama.am /
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