Azerbaijan's policy towards Armenia changes only for the worse

PanARMENIAN.Net - The matter is dealt with rather seriously, on the level of Foreign Ministries of the two countries. The interesting point is that in the neighbouring country there are politicians who even came to the point of declaring that Russia has sold the weapons not to Armenia but to a third country. It is incomprehensible however to whom so much artillery could be sold through Armenia: to Iran, Turkey or… Georgia? Here rather an interesting conclusion can be made: through Armenia Russia delivers armaments to Turkey, which, in its turn, passes them to Baku. And all this in addition to the weapons that Turkey delivers to Azerbaijan in the framework of bilateral agreements. Let us admit that all this looks rather absurd even to the Agitation and Propaganda Department of Baku. And there is absolutely no doubt that these are propagandistic tricks. Chief order of the authorities to put out Armenia armed to the teeth and ready to attack peaceful Azerbaijan is carried out brilliantly. The only trouble is that no one, including authors of the information themselves, believes these old stories any more.

It is quite explicable why such information should have appeared in the heat of the «gas war» between Russia and Ukraine as a result of which Europe remained gasless. Azerbaijan is eager to become monopolist-supplier of gas into Europe that is why it warns beforehand: "We are willing but Armenia may hinder". So, if Europe needs Azerbaijani gas, it will have to «put Armenia in her place». And the place that Baku leaves for Armenia following Turkic tradition is quite clear - it is either a dessert or death. However, Baku forgets an important thing: monopoly in energy supplies sooner or later begins to glitch. No one can guarantee that with gas transited through Turkey, problems will not occur. They may occur and might be even more serious than the Ukrainian bargain over the price and transit conditions.

But let us revert to the delivery of the mythical armaments. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry is inclined to disagree with any negative answer from the Russian side. "The Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan urges for extra explanation. Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasiliy Istratov conveyed Tuesday to Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov the reply from the Russian Defense Ministry in response to Azerbaijan's inquiry about the alleged armament supply to Armenia from the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri. The reply did not satisfy the Azerbaijani side and the Foreign Minister urges for more detailed explanation of the fact," said Elhan Polukhov, Press attachй of Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, the Azeri press writes.

The Azerbaijani «Propaganda Ministry» seems to have considered everything except for one important condition: there exist many international agreements on armament. In the framework of the CFE (Conventional Armed Forces in Europe) Treaty both Russia and Armenia are to inform what, where and in what quantities they have. Any change in quantity of this or that unit, or re-deployment must immediately be reported to the OSCE headquarters in Vienna. Vienna has received no such information, and at least on this account the transaction of USD800 million cannot be considered true. At any moment any of the CFE Treaty signers can express desire to carry out inspection of treaty fulfillment. So far no inspection has revealed violations. On the contrary, the treaty is periodically violated by Azerbaijan which actively purchases weapons from the Czech Republic and, particularly, from the Ukraine - armour equipment and long-range multiple launch rocket systems "Smerch". The information that Baku is actively renewing its military equipment is a well-known fact in the UN, where expert-countries annually deliver information on new transactions. But here Azerbaijan contrives to ascribe everything to Armenia by attributing its armament to Yerevan and misleading both its citizens and viewers of news sites. There is no need to always respond to the moves of the «Propaganda Ministry», since in this way Armenia puts herself in the position of an excuse-maker. However, from time to time it is necessary to show the successors of Dr. Goebbels that sense of proportion is essential even when lying; though as the Reich Minister liked to repeat "lie must be collosal to believe it".