On January 16th NKR Defense Minister, Defense Army Commander, Lieutenant General Movses Hakobyan received OSCE Chairman’s Personal Representative Anjey Kasprjik. During the meeting the operative situation on the Armenian-Azeri contact zone and perspectives of further cooperation were discussed.

According to candidate of psychological science, associate professor, Colonel Vazgen Margaryan the information-psychological influence structures of Azerbaijan for a long time seek to present Armenia in the role of an aggressor in the Armenian-Azeri conflict to reach its aims with the help of the international community. However this is a manipulation since there is no gain for the international community from the aims of Azerbaijan.

Iranian-Arabian relations were never notable for warmth. The reasons are not only religious disagreements between Shiites and Sunnites, but also territorial disputes, and basically – Iran’s nuclear program and her claim for the regional leadership.

On the opinion of Arabist Nelli Mouradyan, power change in Syria would not result in country’s democratization. Quite the contrary, most probably the Islamists will come to power and chaos would begin in the country.
Today the law guarantees national minorities rights and there is a religious tolerance atmosphere in the country, but in case the Islamists come the attitude towards national and religious minorities would sharply deteriorate. Already now in some places the Islamists utter threats towards Armenians saying: “You came here naked and today you keep us as labourers”.

On the opinion of military expert Artsroun Hovanisyan, after 1994 ceasefire Azerbaijan spent at least 10 billion dollars on armaments purchase, not counting the expenses on military industry. However on this money it purchased basically armaments with life duration of maximum 20-25 years which after some time will become scrap metal. After the Armenian army military parade on September 21st it became evident that Azerbaijan’s attacking potential not only does not have advantage with respect to potential of Armenia but is inferior to it.

It is difficult to say how many times the President of Azerbaijan went over again the RA AF military parade video, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Independence of Armenia, but fact is that from that knockout he recovered only recently, after a month from the 21st of September. Aliyev presented himself to his nation in a very cheerful way and started criticizing the parade of the Armenians. According to him, tanks were on carriages, that means “either there is no fuel or the equipment is faulty”; the Russians participated in the parade, which means “Armenia is the fore post of Russia; chaplains went marching, that means “the Armenians have no human resources for the army”.

Our case is different. We haven’t waged war on Turkey. So it has been a nationally elaborated genocide policy, the results of which exist to this day: considerable part of our fatherland is expropriated, our material, spiritual, and cultural values are destroyed, our relatives are killed. Turkey denies the fact of the genocide, thus distorting the historical truth. And what is more, since the Armenian Independence, Turkey has put into practice pressure and blocade against us and refuses to establish diplomatic relations, concludes an alliance with Azerbaijan in the issue of Kharabagh antagonism. It wrecked the Armenian enterprise to improve celations without preliminary terms.