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AZERBAIJAN INCITES BORDER TENSIONS TO RESTRAIN WEST - ARMENIAN MP
14:44 * 19.07.14
By provoking border incidents from time to time, Azerbaijan is
seeking to exert pressure on the West, a lawmaker of Armenia's ruling
political force has said, commenting on the country's repeated acts
of sabotage across the border with Armenia and the Line of Contact
with Nagorno-Karabakh.
"The threat of war has always existed, and it still exists, but
Azerbaijan doesn't want a war, because it knows it will suffer
big losses," Lernik Aleksanyan of the ruling Republican faction in
parliament told a news conference on Saturday.
He described Azerbaijan's conduct as a mere attempt to let the West
know that the country doesn't trigger a war only because it would thus
violate international laws. "It just exertd pressures, but a war in
the region is not in the West's interests either," Aleksanyan noted.
David Sanasaryan, a spokesperson of the opposition Heritage party,
attributed the border tensions to wrong foreign policies which he
said often stem from failures on the domestic political arena.
He expressed concerns over Russia's arms sales to Azerbaijan, noting
that the country is a political ally of Armenia, a member of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization.
"They say it has to do with business interests, but even [President]
Serzh Sargsyan now says that the people are concerned. And the
concerns have to do first of all with the Republic of Armenia. So we
have nothing left than to launch a campaign in autumn to achieve a
regime change," Sanasaryan said.
According to him, Azerbaijan is just seeking to provoke a panic in
the Armenian society without any real intention to launch a war.
"The Azerbaijanis manage to stir up a panic, also thanks to the
media, so they celebrate a victory in the information warfare,"
Sanasaryan added.
Armenian News - Tert.am
14:44 * 19.07.14
By provoking border incidents from time to time, Azerbaijan is
seeking to exert pressure on the West, a lawmaker of Armenia's ruling
political force has said, commenting on the country's repeated acts
of sabotage across the border with Armenia and the Line of Contact
with Nagorno-Karabakh.
"The threat of war has always existed, and it still exists, but
Azerbaijan doesn't want a war, because it knows it will suffer
big losses," Lernik Aleksanyan of the ruling Republican faction in
parliament told a news conference on Saturday.
He described Azerbaijan's conduct as a mere attempt to let the West
know that the country doesn't trigger a war only because it would thus
violate international laws. "It just exertd pressures, but a war in
the region is not in the West's interests either," Aleksanyan noted.
David Sanasaryan, a spokesperson of the opposition Heritage party,
attributed the border tensions to wrong foreign policies which he
said often stem from failures on the domestic political arena.
He expressed concerns over Russia's arms sales to Azerbaijan, noting
that the country is a political ally of Armenia, a member of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization.
"They say it has to do with business interests, but even [President]
Serzh Sargsyan now says that the people are concerned. And the
concerns have to do first of all with the Republic of Armenia. So we
have nothing left than to launch a campaign in autumn to achieve a
regime change," Sanasaryan said.
According to him, Azerbaijan is just seeking to provoke a panic in
the Armenian society without any real intention to launch a war.
"The Azerbaijanis manage to stir up a panic, also thanks to the
media, so they celebrate a victory in the information warfare,"
Sanasaryan added.
Armenian News - Tert.am