According Artsakhpress site, Baku anxiously awaiting the reply of Armenians after the Armenian helicopter shot Nov. 12 that resulted in the deaths of three officers of the camera flying over the border area near Agna (Aghdam).
“If the enemy attack and undertakes any military operation, the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan replicate significantly, his shots will be operational and destructive which will cause many casualties and massive destruction,” said the General Staff of the Azerbaijani army in Baku. This release is in response to the assertion Sarkisian late last week after military maneuvers in large Karabakh, the Armenian president said at the time that the Armenian army will respond to the attack against the Azeri Armenian helicopter. Armenian Defense Minister had also said that the response of Armenia would be even stronger than the deliberate Azeri. The Minister of Defence of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh Movses Hakobyan also outbid by saying “we will take a destructive attack where they least expect it. This is why the services of our army study weaknesses and strengths of the enemy and we will strike where it will be more painful for the enemy. This does not mean that we will attack systematically weaknesses of the enemy, we will hit its strongest points of defense to resolve once and for all the problem. “
After the attack on the helicopter by Armenian Azeri, remember that President Serzh Sarkisian -défiant the Azerbaïdjan- moved from Yerevan to Stepanakert by helicopter and after the Armenian unit shot, Armenian forces as well as many helicopters continued military maneuvers in the sky Nagorno-Karabakh and near the line of contact. For now the Armenian Army seems to wait the “operative time” for its response to the aggression of Baku. Moreover, the Azeri forces seem to be placed on their reserves in anticipation of the Armenian attack imminent. Azerbaijan that has everything to lose armed conflict seems he decided to reduce its provocations and violations of the border cease-fire. According to many information relayed by Azeri media, Azerbaijan has launched a terrible provocation feared lightning return of the Armenian Army.
Krikor Amirzayan