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Vienna meeting was political victory of Armenian side, says former Defense Minister

Vienna meeting was political victory of Armenian side, says former Defense Minister

YEREVAN, MAY 31, ARMENPRESS. Former Defense Minister of Armenia Vagharshak Harutyunyan says the Vienna meeting was the political victory of the Armenian side.

“There is no need to separate military or political victory, no matter we had lost territories or not, which, of course, is not good. We should assess this meeting from the military-political point of view since, regardless of our territorial losses, our army prevailed during the April war: we actually thwarted the Azerbaijani army’s plan and proved that despite the large expenses of the Azerbaijani army, it did not become stronger and failed. The military solution of the Karabakh conflict is a closed topic for Azerbaijan”, he stated.  

He said it is important that the lost territory is not populated and has no military significance. “Of course, having lost territories is not good, however, everyone should understand and trust the Army. Many people say they should go and return the territories, however, what can be achieved from this? I am confident that our army will develop a respective plan on time and will implement it”, Harutyunyan said.

Referring to the question why Azerbaijan agreed to participate in the meeting, former Defense Minister said: “The aim of the Azerbaijani attacks were these negotiations, since they hoped with such means the Minsk Group would make a proposal of giving Nagorno Karabakh to Azerbaijan, however, they did not reach their goal, and Azerbaijan was forced to take part in this meeting and agreed over the installation of ceasefire mechanisms”, Minister said.

Overnight May 1-2 Azerbaijan unleashed large-scale military operations along the entire length of the Nagorno Karabakh line of contact. After four-day war the Azerbaijani armed forces were thrown back having 300-400 human and military equipment losses. The ceasefire agreement was reached on April 5 in Moscow by the Chiefs of the General Staff of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Armed forces. And the meeting between the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan was held on May 16 in Vienna.








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