ArmInfo. Armenian Army is ready to rebuff any diversion of the enemy and to beat off with an adequate strike, said the Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan during his interview to the "Armenia" TV Channel, commenting the failed diversion attempt of the Azeri troops taken place on October 21.
He mentioned that Armenian Army arranges its alert ready status taking into consideration enemy's such provocations probability. "Such intentions will keep on taking place unless, as the former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said in time, ':they get to love their children more, than they do hate us'. Accordingly, we should be permanently ready not only for a counterstrike, but also to held punishing arrangements to prevent all such efforts," the minister said.
Sargsyan stated that Armenian troops are well trained, and they easily could deal with all the tasks assigned. "We acknowledged that Azeris' behavior is aggressive and they use to declare permanently their readiness and intention to give an armed showdown solution to the Karabakh conflict. Hence, we were made to learn targeting and solving difficult military tasks, and the present level of the combat readiness is just a result of the long years efforts, creating a good basis for the future,"- Sargsyan mentioned. He added also that the country shouldn't run for the military race and - vice versa - should find some innovative solution in respect to the armament purchase.
"We are being imposed a military race, but we should be able to be meticulous about our future steps and to get ready not for yester war, but for tomorrow one. But, taking this path, we should feasibly estimate what do we have in our arsenal and what do we additionally need to reach the ultimate result within minor resources,"- he briefed. The Minister added thereat that it's necessary to improve the military industries and to implement the "Nation- Army" concept, which appears nowadays as one of the Government's priorities. Sargsyan also expressed the opinion that the Armenian Army is just the most complete state entity. Answering the question regarding territorial concessions within the peace talks, Sargsyan stated that the mutual concessions and drawbacks threshold is to be estimated during the talks, and approved by the Armed Forces Supreme Commander, taking the advice of all the parties. And the role of the Defense Ministry is to improve the capacity of the army.
We recall that on October 20, around 11:23 PM, at the oriental and southern parts of the Line of Contact of the Karabakh and Azeri troops, the Azeri forces made an attempt of diversion. According to the Nagorno Karabkh Defense Ministry Press Office, the avant-gardes of the NKR Defense Army suppressed all the penetration attempts of Azeri special forces. The enemy incurred losses and was thrown back to its positions. While kicking back the Azeri aggression, the NKR Defense army didn't experience any casualties.