Artsrun Hovhannisyan referred to Turkish-Tartarian threats on striking civil airplanes

YEREVAN, JANUARY 31, ARMENPRESS: Spokesman of Armenian Ministry of Defence Artsrun Hovhannisyan has once again reaffirmed that Armenian armed forces are able to ensure security of Stepanakert airport flights. “President declares that Stepanakert airport will be exploited, and defence minister has noted that we are able to ensure security of flights,” reminded spokesman of Armenian Ministry of Defence, considering it to be odd that without any reasonable argument some people hadn’t taken into account above mentioned statements and kept retyping threats of Turkish-Tartarian bashibozuks.

As reports Armenpress, in his Facebook page Artsrun Hovhannisyan has referred to the “seriousness” of Azerbaijani threats to strike civil airplanes. “Who told that Azerbaijan was joking? It wasn’t, as it didn’t in 1992, 1993, and 1994 when their forces were escaping from Shushi,” Hovhannisyan noted.

Armenian Defence spokesman added that back in 1992 the same airport was liberated and restored its flights, while at that time Azerbaijan had Ս-200 systems on 250 km distance. “So why it didn’t manage to strike any airplane?” Hovhannisyan noted with irony.