“Do not pay attention to these statements, they are just campaign stupidities, and to connect this prate with RA foreign policy, generally, does not make sense.”,- so replied the expert of the “East” strategic analytical center David Apinyan to the question of Aravot.am whether the statement of the President of Azerbaijan made during the military parade held in Baku is a result of some gaps in the field of RA foreign policy.
We should note that Aliyev, in particular, has announced that the Azerbaijani flag will again be waved in Nagorno-Karabakh, that as if their military capacity will play its role in the fair resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh issue and in restoring the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
Continuing the conversation, the expert said,- “There is no need to refer to the subject, in general, it is a campaign stupidity that is aimed at domestic audience. And connecting it with our policy is a damage to us from the viewpoint of our patriotism. Why should we become cheaper to comment these stupidities?”
To the question whether these statements are viewed as a threat, D. Apinyan answered in this way,- “Threat by content has a two-part approach. Threat by words and threat that has a practical significance. I urge not to refer to Aliyev’s stupidity at all.”
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As for selling weapons to Azerbaijan by RF for the parade, Mr. Apinyan thinks,- “The process of selling upgraded weapons to Azerbaijan by Russia generates from is logic of pragmatism and from tactical and strategic objectives appropriate to a big country. The buy and sale of arms has a feature that enables the supplier to be dependent from the supplied. Officially Moscow due to the latter tends to keep Azerbaijan in the orbit of its influence which is gradually coming out it, and the processes of routing maintenance of military equipment, recruitment of their stock, further modernization, as well as learning process of the service and maintenance personnel provide a certain chance to RF to strengthen its influence over the official Baku.”
In this context, he noted that the inflow of oil-dollars to official Baku has enabled to act independently, one of the brightest evidences is shutting down of ‘Daryal” type of radar station, which was located in Gabala and leased to Moscow, in response to which Moscow stopped the export of Azerbaijani raw oil running through Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline.
Referring to the moral side of the fact of selling weapons to Azerbaijan by the strategic alley of the official Yerevan, Russia, to threaten the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, D. Apinyan said we should not look at Russia with offended eyes, but as
an example, emphasized that the United States never sells any attacking weapon to countries, who openly threaten its confederate country Israel.
The expert did not exclude that these weapons might one day be directed to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh Republics, however, assured that the armed forces of Armenia are adequately equipped and have a high level of battlefield training, which enables to respond to the enemy deservedly.
Tatev HARUTIUNIAN
