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  • BAKU: Armenian Official Unruffled By Azeri Defense Budget

    ARMENIAN OFFICIAL UNRUFFLED BY AZERI DEFENSE BUDGET

    Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
    posted on March 13 2006

    Baku, March 10, AssA-Irada
    Armenia is not afraid of war and is not particularly concerned at
    the fact that Azerbaijan's military budget is expanding, its Defense
    Minister Serzh Sarkisian has said. He said Armenia was prepared for
    any scenario.

    "As for Azerbaijan's growing military capability, this does not
    exactly mean that Baku will draw any benefit from that," Sarkisian
    said. The defense minister said the Armenian armed forces were
    currently in a very good position and regarded this as one of the
    key factors behind what he called "Armenia's military supremacy"
    over Azerbaijan. He indicated that the millions of dollars expected
    to start flowing into the Azerbaijani state budget [oil revenues]
    would not make a big difference on the military front.

    "If combat-readiness was measured by the size of military budgets,
    the world's key oil exporters would have the strongest armies. This
    is not the case."

    Sarkisian also said the deployment of international peacekeepers in
    the Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict zone was unlikely in the near
    future because the parties to the conflict have to reach agreement
    before that can happen.
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