"TURKEY AND AZERBAIJAN TO TAKE JOINT MILITARY ACTIONS IN KARABAKH"
On March 4, breaking the armistice regime, the Azerbaijani armed forces started firing on the positions of Nagorno-Karabakh. In result of the skirmish the Azerbaijani army lost eight servicemen, and two soldiers of the Defense Army of Nagorno-were wounded. As the Azerbaijani side started the assault with considerable manpower, armored machinery and artillery, and as the skirmish lasted for more than 10 hours, the threat of recommencement of the war in was evident.
Foreign Minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian explained the incident by the excitement of the authorities of Azerbaijan with the political situation inside Armenia. Official Baku tried to put the responsibility for the incident on the frontier on the Armenian authorities, alleging that Armenia needed it for distracting the public attention from the inner political crisis. Azerbaijani Defense Ministry also spread false information that 12 Armenian soldiers were killed and 15 wounded in the clash.
Wisely neglecting the official statement of Foreign Minister Oskanian, the major international information sources responded to the Azerbaijani fiction about 12 Armenian soldiers killed. Anyway, the problem is not the Azerbaijani lies, which we are used to, but the real threat of having a new war unleashed in Karabakh.
The latter circumstance had to compel the NATO Parliamentary Assembly to condemn the aggressor and express concern about the situation. However the head of the Parliamentary Assembly omitted the threat of a new war and estimated the ceasefire violation merely as "an unpleasant incident".
Although vice-spokesman of the US Department of State Tom Casey expressed concern about the incident, he put no difference between the aggressor and its "target", and even expressed some king of support to Azerbaijan. "The independence of Kosovo is not a precedent and cannot be considered as one for Nagorno-Karabakh," he added.
It may sound absurd, but the very same thing that slips away from the attention of NATO and the US, rouses great interest in Turkey. "Milliet" newspaper not only reporters the Armenian Foreign Ministry's official statement, but also considers the possibility that Azerbaijan was trying to make profit of the situation in Armenia. "in fact it is not known, which side is responsible for the skirmish, but it is still possible that Baku was trying to give Armenia a lesson that way," "Milliet" writes.
"Eni Musafat" comments on the support expressed by NATO and the US to Azerbaijan. The newspaper, hinting at the rumors about PKK troops hiding out in Karabakh, suggests that Turkey and Azerbaijan may take large-scale military actions on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. "Eni Musafat" alleges that the United States have given their approval, a Turkish-Azerbaijani military headquarter has been organized and intelligence works started.
The position of the USA on Armenia and the Armenians is as ambiguous as that of the European Union. In this case at least the Azerbaijani mass media seem reliable. In case allegations on Turkish-Azerbaijani military operations in come true, the United States shall have to empower Turkey to take the initiative on conflict settlement. Taking into consideration that the White House is rather jealous of any initiative, all these seems hardly possible.
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