“I see a threat from Islamic State solely coming from Caucasus where the structure has a vilayet. It disturbs RF, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and the terrorist activeness in Chechnya and Kyrgyzstan is its handiwork”, informed Arabist Sargis Grigoryan during the meeting with journalists at “Armenpress” news agency. “We are near Caucasus which is a threat to RA. If IS takes the responsibility of Saint Petersburg’s terrorism, it will mean that IS comes out from the limits of Caucasus”, he told.
Grigoryan assured that during the April War IS troops did not operate from Azerbaijani side: “IS is a supranational structure, its members are the citizens of IS. Azerbaijani cannot have separate troops in IS and declare that they go to defend Azerbaijan”, noticed Sargis Grigoryan. According to him “Azerbaijani who have made an attempt to go to Syria or Iraq via Turkey to join IS and failed are more dangerous than those who have fought for IS. They will return to Azerbaijan and will be a bigger threat not only to the security of Azerbaijan but the whole Caucasus as well.”
Luiza SUKIASYAN
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