The most important task of the Armenian Armed Forces is to prevent any violation of the ceasefire established in 1994, military expert Ruben Meghrabyan stated in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, the Azeri Armed Forces have the same task, added to rearmament, multiplication of military potential in an aspiration to change the status quo in their favor with a final purpose to restore the territorial integrity so much spoken about by the military and political leadership of the neighbor state. "I will not reveal a secret by saying that the Armenian army performs its main task while the Azeri side confines to the first part only. The fact is that over 12 years the ceasefire is maintained without any dividing force. Parity has been established and the Armenian side is not interested in change of military-geographical and military-political status quo in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone while the Azeri side doesn't possess sufficient power to change the status quo unfavorable for it," he said.

Ruben Meghrabyan remarked that these are two mini-soviet armies. "Here function the same soviet general regulations and laws, the same closed regime ruling out any civil control. The same huge expenses and absence of reserve training. As a matter of fact these two armies are "deeply soviet" and are efficient to the extent their soviet prototype was," Meghrabyan said.

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