Baku reiterates ability to destroy any object in Armenia

/By Azernews/

By Nazrin Gadimova

Azerbaijan’s Armed Forces can defeat the Armenian troops not only in the occupied territories of Nagorno-Karabakh, but also destroy any object in the territory of Armenia.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry stated about this in a statement issued as a response to the article issued by Russia's Military-Industrial Courier newspaper on March 9.

“Facts and figures cited in this article are outdated. Azerbaijan, within a short period, took steps to upgrade weapons and equipment with more modern, high-precision and destructive ones, and this process gains momentum. The author’s reasoning is often misplaced; it does not reflect the current situation and the processes in the region in reality,” the ministry stressed.

Azerbaijan has enough power and strength to fight against the criminal units, consisting of occupants and separatists, according to the defense ministry.

The Defense Ministry reminded that Azerbaijan pursues peace policy and respects the international norms. That is the reason why the country does not launch active hostilities with Armenia.

Azerbaijan, which is in war with neighboring Armenia over the latter's territorial claims during more than 20 years, keeps in focus the armament, working closely with leading companies and firms in various fields of military industry.

The country purchased numerous weapons from foreign countries including Turkey, Russia and Israel, to modernize and upgrade its armed forces, and signed military contracts with over 20 countries, which envisage a large-scale weapons supply.

Azerbaijan also regularly holds military drills to check the training level and fighting capability of the army.

The country leaves behind the CIS and regional countries to take its place among the first 70 strongest militaries of the world, according to the US-based Global Firepower survey center. The survey center has ranked the Azerbaijani army as 64 of 126 in the list of world's strongest armies with a GFP Power Index rating of 1.5221.

Although Baku stand for peaceful resolution of the conflict, the country strengthens its military arsenal to prevent all possible provocative attempts of Armenia that created an unrecognized regime at the occupied territory of Azerbaijan as a result of conflict that evolved in 1988.

A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far. Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.