War In Nagorno Karabakh Can Start At Any Moment, page 8

Azerbaijan to regain Karabakh only through 'victorious war'

News.Az interviews Azerbaijani military expert Vladimir Timoshenko, a lieutentant general (retired) in the air defence forces.

What are your impressions of the military parade held in Baku on 26 June, Armed Forces Day?

The impressions are positive and certainly optimistic, but I'm very upset at the reports on the presidents' meeting about Karabakh, held in Kazan. It means that we have to take some measures, since there is no end to this conflict, given Armenia’s stance.

What is your prediction, given the current situation in the Karabakh settlement process: which is more likely, a peaceful or military solution?

I am again of the opinion that Karabakh will be returned to Azerbaijan only as a result of a victorious war, since the result of all these referendums so much spoken about is obvious.

Meanwhile, Armenia will return the regions around Nagorno-Karabakh voluntarily. Probably, not all seven, but at least five or six.

Maybe Armenia could give back 5-6 regions and Azerbaijan could let Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia? That would solve the issue...

A senior opposition party official sees no chance of Karabakh peace.


Armenian Opposition Party Sees No Chance Of Karabakh Accord

August 01, 2011

YEREVAN -- A senior opposition party official says Armenia and Azerbaijan will fail to reach a framework agreement on the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the coming months despite peace efforts, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.

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Einstürzende Neubauten - Nagorny Karabach

An interesting new article in the Washington Post (three pages).


In Nagorno-Karabakh, peace elusive 20 years after Soviet fall

This is where the first war set off by the Soviet collapse took place. And it may be where the next one breaks out.

But with snipers on both sides shooting at one another every day, occasionally causing casualties, and plenty of saber-rattling rhetoric, the chances of stumbling into a war of miscalculation, or a war of hotheadedness, are considerable.

Tevan Poghosyan, who in the 1990s represented Karabakh in the United States and now runs a think tank in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, said war is inevitable.

The Armenian kingdom was the first to adopt Christianity as its official religion, in 301, and Azerbaijanis are Muslims, though both sides like to play down the religious divide. (Iran favors Armenia, for one thing.) Yet Armenians marked their tanks with white crosses. And at the mountaintop Gandzasar Monastery, where the St. John the Baptist Cathedral was consecrated in 1240, there is a regular liturgy for the “martyrs” of the war.

Transnistrians participate in Karabakh anniversary celebrations.


Transdniestrian delegation participates in Artsakh independence celebration

September 1, 2011


The parties exchanged views on issues of mutual interest, in particular the perspectives of resolution of Karabakh and Transdnestrian conflicts

Azeri UAV shot down.


Kharabakh Army Downs Unmanned Azeri Drone

On Sept. 14, the Karabakh Defense Ministry announced it had downed an unmanned Azeri drone flying in Armenian airspace, on a reconnaissance mission.

According to the Defense Ministry, the Azerbaijani side had recently increased its air presence on the border, likely conducting military surveys of the area. In the past couple of days, the frequency of these flights increased, and they followed the length of the contact line, and in some instances violated Armenia’s airspace.

Azerbaijan forecasts steady growth, boosts military spend

Lawmakers in Azerbaijan approved a 2012 budget Tuesday that forecasts steady economic growth for the energy-rich ex-Soviet state and boosts defence spending amid its military stand-off with Armenia.

Defence and military spending will rise by 1.9 percent to 1.4 billion Azerbaijani manats ($1.8 billion/1.3 billion euros) -- almost 15 percent of the entire state budget -- amid the continuing conflict with neighbour Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh.

reply to post by Vitchilo

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Seems like some sort of conflict between Armenia - Nagorno Karabakh - Azerbaijan is still a possibility.

Whilst the world's eyes are fixed on Iran I fear that this is one of world's potential flashpoints that could escalate certainly into a major regional conflict and possibly even more widespread.

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