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    ROBERT KOCHARIAN: FIGHTING EFFICIENCY OF NAGORNO KARABAKH IS UP TO THE MARK

    Noyan Tapan
    March 5, 2008

    YEREVAN, MARCH 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The incident on the contact line of
    Karabakh and Azerbaijani forces on March 4 showed that the fighting
    efficiency of Nagorno Karabakh self-defence forces is up to the mark,
    the Armenian president Robert Kocharian stated at the March 5 press
    conference.

    "I don't think it is politically correct to use such situations for
    entirely different purposes," he said, meaning the Azerbaijani side
    which was the first to attack. According to the Armenian president,
    it is quite possible that they in Azerbaijan thought that the current
    situation in Armenia has reduced the vigilance of the Karabakh armed
    forces, maybe it seemed to them that some military units were sent
    from Karabakh to Armenia. "This is not the case," he stated.

    Azerbaijani armed forces seized a sentry post of the Karabakh
    forces, then Karabakh forces took it back. However, after this the
    Karabakh positions were being shelled from mine-throwers. The fire
    ended as a result of the agreement reached with Azerbaijan's defence
    ministry. The foriegn minister and defence minister of Armenia got into
    touch with the special representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office
    Andrzei Kasprzyk who was in Baku at that time. "The normal regime
    of the cease-fire must be restored along the whole contact line,"
    R. Kocharian said, adding that artillery was not used on the line
    for a long time but it happened on March 4.
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