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Ganira Pashayeva offers to hold monitoring on Armeniaâ€™s weapons placed in occupied Azeri lands

24 January 2007 15:46 (UTC +04:00)

She said that the determination of the number of military equipment and weapons of the Post Soviet countries after USSR downfall was noted in the questionnaire.
â€œThe population, area, as well as military-political situation of the countries was not taken into consideration while distribution. Though Azerbaijanâ€™s population and area is triple of Armenia, the number of military equipment and weapons were equal. The number of personal staff of the armed forces was determined 60 000 for Armenia with 3 million population and 70 000 for Azerbaijan with 8 million population. According to the world practice, the number of armed forces to ensure the security of the country makes up 1% of the whole population. The main duty of armed forces of every country is to ensure the territorial integrity. How can a state with triple area of the other state ensure the security with the same number of military equipment? So, it caused military disbalance in the region, and resulted in Azerbaijanâ€™s occupation by Armenia.â€? The document also notes that Russia gave Armenia illegal armament in 1995-1996 and a part of those armaments have been placed in occupied Azerbaijani territories. All these happened after Armenia joined to law on â€œcommon armed forces in Europe in the frame of OSCEâ€? and â€œVienna document on strengthening of trust and safetâ€?.
The document notes that the Armeniaâ€™s information on traditional annual military report of OSCE member states is not real. The questionnaire stresses that Armenia continues to arm, violating the rules of â€œCommon Armed forces in Europeâ€?.
â€œArmenian became an arm passing center for international organizations and regimes, and has created conditions for international terrorist organizations to prepare terrorists. Different illicit drugs and the components of weapons of mass annihilation are passed from this point to different countries and it menaces the stability and safety of region countries. OSCE monitoring mission has confirmed the fact Armenians are placed in occupied Azerbaijani territories which contradicts the international legal norms.â€?
Pashayeva asked the Cabinet of Ministers what measures can be taken to estimate Armenianâ€™s moves and about the possibility of holding monitoring on armaments by CE in occupied Azerbaijani territories. /APA/