YEREVAN, March 12. /Mediamax/. "If all the possible ways of Armenian-Azeri Karabakh conflict settlement are exhausted, of course, we'll have to resort to an alternative variant", chief of Foreign relations department of the Executive office of the president of Azerbaijan, Novruz Mamedov said, according to Azeri "Trend" agency.
Mamedov said Azeri society must be prepared for that. He said Azerbaijan is already ready to take "certain steps", and if there is need to realize them, Armenia "won't be able to resist us". He argued this by the fact that the population of Armenia has decreased for the past years due to the outflow of people and that according to his data it makes 1.5 million at present, with about 50 % of the population over 55 years of age. Unless hard economic situation in Armenia changes within a year, "nobody will remain in the country", Mamedov said.
At the same time Mamedov said if Azerbaijan has to choose between peaceful and military settlement of the Karabakh conflict, the leadership of Azerbaijan will certainly prefer the first one. --0--