Alexey Mitrofanov: Armenians will not give back landsJuly 21, 2009 - 13:18 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia acts as a platform for meetings between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, a Russian politician said."The influence of the United States and Russia should not be overestimated. There is a conflict between two countries where mediators have a limited commission. Armenia will not surrender lands, Nagorno Karabakh will never be a part of Azerbaijan. What can they do? Just wait some 20 or 40 more years?" said Alexey Mitrofanov, member of Russian State Duma. "Armenians will not surrender Karabakh even if Russia and the entire world decide to support Azerbaijan. Nothing will change even if Azerbaijan gifts its gas and $10 billion to Russia," he said. According to Mitrofanov, a war is a way out but it will exhaust both countries and produce no positive effect. "The peculiarity of this conflict is the mentality of nations," he said, 1news.az reported. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |