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Experts: â€œIn case official Baku attempts to ensure its territorial integrity, Russia will take analogous steps against Azerbaijanâ€ â€“ POLL

Experts: â€œIn case official Baku attempts to ensure its territorial integrity, Russia will take analogous steps against Azerbaijanâ€ â€“ <font color=red>POLL </font>

11 August 2008 11:30 (UTC +04:00)

He said Georgian army had high-level combat readiness and mentioned losses of Russian army.
â€œBefore the operations Russia had deployed 350,000 servicemen in the North Caucasus - Georgia and Azerbaijan. The scenario of the military operations in the Caucasus has been reviewed in Caucasus-2008 trainings recently. I think that Russians will have no military achievement in Georgia. Georgian armed forces hold one of the first placed in CIS for its combat readiness. According to the latest reports, about 150 Russian servicemen were killed, hundreds of soldiers were wounded, military supplies were destroyed,â€ he said.

The military expert said that Russia attempts to strike the international energy and transport corridors passing through Georgia.
â€œThe main attention is focused on Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline,â€ he said.

Commenting on the current situation Azad Isazadeh said by launching war with Georgia Russia violated all international treaties and demonstrated its aggressive policy. The expert considers that even if Georgia can not take control of South Ossetia, it will try to achieve Russiaâ€™s deprival of the peacekeeping mandate in the region.

Isazadeh noted that Georgian forces had been strengthened at present and would fight against Russian forces.
â€œLosses of Russians prove it. Georgiaâ€™s army building is formed basing on specialists. If fighting lasts for a long time, quality of Georgian military units will be lowered and it will pass to army consisting of drafteesâ€, he said.

Military expert Yashar Jafarli stated that Azerbaijan would also join process, if situation continued in the region.
â€œRussia tried to start military operations beforehand. Armenia along with Russia participates in operations in Georgia. Participation of Azerbaijan in the process will be unavoidableâ€, he said. Same danger is expected by Azerbaijan as well.
â€œRussia gets irritated about economic increase of Azerbaijan. Russia can attack on Azerbaijan any timeâ€, he said.

Experts thought that if official Baku wanted to ensure its territorial integrity in Nagorno Karabakh, Russia would take analogical steps against Azerbaijan as well. Military expert Mammadov added that Russia had 10 military scenarios on Nagorno Karabakh.
â€œGeorgia cannot be remained alone in the struggle against separatists and their supporter Russiaâ€, he said.
Isazadeh stressed that same scenario would be applied to Nagorno Karabakh. To him, irrespective of Russiaâ€™s direct interference in Nagorno Karabakh, it will render assistance to Armenia.