Politician Tigran Abrahamyan arrived at this conclusion after the latest border incidents
– Border incidents are continued since August of last year and this year more intensively. Do you also think that the only reason for it is the centennial of the Genocide? Aren’t there any political interests of great powers, which resulted in the creation of this situation? Especially since the president of Azerbaijan calls the international agreements a “scrap of paper”.
– I do not connect the border incidents with Genocide centennial. Surely, in terms of combat duty, April is expected to be a difficult month, truly, there are rapid activation risks by the opponent. Azerbaijan’s military-political elite solves tactical problems with the help of border incidents, which occur at different times in different forms. And the statement by the President of Azerbaijan regarding qualifying the international agreements as a “scrap of paper”, the best demonstrates the attitude that Azerbaijan displays towards the agreements reached during bipartite or multipartite meetings.
– Looking back to the border incidents starting from the cease-fire up to the recent days, Azerbaijan has passed from random actions to subversive war. What does this suggest? Which will be the next step?
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– Currently, Azerbaijan had adopted the line of “sniper-subversive war”, aiming at possibly causing great damage to the Armenian side, both material, human and moral-psychological. As to the sequence of steps, the situation is as follows: firstly, Azerbaijan was breaking the ceasefire with irregular fires, later on, the snipers and subversive and intelligence forces were actively engaged in the game, afterwards, after the changes in tactics, the penetrations of subversive and intelligence forces turned into diversion and special detachment actions implemented in the direction of the Armenian combat positions. Simultaneously, Azerbaijan employs weapons, which are long-ranged and quite big in size. Today, mines and grenade launchers are “working” in the front line, and, unfortunately, the official reports cover the use of it more frequently. Next, Azerbaijan will expand the weapons used against the Armenian positions and units, the foundations of which are visible today.
– Should Armenia’s approach be only defensive? Recently, in one of his speeches, the President clearly mentioned that the Armenian side from now on would not only be protective but also offensive.
– The opponent’s actions compel us to be attacking. It is an effective way to prevent provocations.
– How would interpret Serzh Sargsyan’s recently voiced concern about arming Azerbaijan? Wasn’t it belated? And why there were no responds from Russia? The next day after the statement, Azerbaijan conducted subversive activities. Was it Russia’s response?
– I do not think that President Serzh Sargsyan’s statement is directly associated with the followed by incident, because still a few days prior to this incident, Azerbaijan was already active in different directions of the front line, by creating risks for penetration of subversive groups. And the President’s statement was not new, moreover belated, as such kind of statements were voiced by the President also during the CSTO meetings, to the point, at that time Serzh Sargsyan did not only talk about the risks of supplying arms to Azerbaijan, but also the need to agreed actions in international organizations by the CSTO member states.
– For a long time, Azerbaijan is building new footholds on the border. What are the Azerbaijanis preparing for? Why the Armenian armed forces do not prevent those activities?
– The engineering works in the front line are ongoing processes that are carried out on both sides. Azerbaijan suffers many casualties in the result of punitive actions by Armenian troops, therefore it is trying to strengthen the sections on the border line that are considered to be weak. Establishment of engineering buildings is also a way to achieve positional advantages. What comes to the response activities by the Armenian armed forces under these situations, then the military sector, especially in the case of unfinished war, do not always enable receiving details about the carried out operations.
Interviewed by Nelly GRIGORYAN
