NATO representative: "Azerbaijan has really established an army which is ready to conduct offensive"

Asking not to mention his name, he dictated the comment on the statement of Milli Medjlis deputy Baba Taghiyev about the ability of the Azerbaijani army to liberate all the occupied lands of Azerbaijan "within 48 hours". Below, is the text of the comment of the NATO commander.

"It seems that the deputy spoke in a figural sense when he stated the ability of the Azerbaijani army to liberate the lands just in two days", said he. "Even the NATO army is unable to do this wonder. And the matter is not the power of the armed forces of Armenia, now occupying Nagorno Karabakh and seven other regions of Azerbaijan. The matter is that though the statements about the power of the Armenian armed forces have been exaggerated even considering the free supplies of the Russian military hardware, well-known even without publications in the Georgian press, the front units of the Azerbaijani army will hardly manage to reach the Armenian-Azerbaijani borders within 48 hours due to the complex landscape and numerous mine fields and other military and technical obstacles. Well, they can just have a trip around an empty Karabakh.

We are closely watching the armament process of the two countries. The Azerbaijani army has really grown stronger over the past years. Your country has really created an army which is able to hold offensive on the background of which the Armenian army does not seem significant any more. Today's relative index, we use in NATO, is absolutely not the same that we used before reconciliation, when there was almost no regular Azerbaijani army, while Armenian formations invaded almost empty settlements of lower Karabakh. Those times are far behind and now you have a real army, which is able not only to defend the remaining part of your territory but also to conduct offensive.

Anyway, the statements of your deputy should be perceived in a figural sense like the statements of Armenian generals about the ability of the Armenian armed forces to move further and hold hostilities inside Azerbaijan. Both parties need to calm down, though Armenians have to worry more and more. In this sense, we really think that in the tactical sense the years of reconciliation worked in your favor, Armenian army is no longer able to hold offensive without facing resistance. Time continues to work in your favor, but you have not yet reached the critical overbalance".

/Day.Az/