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I view any arm supplies to Azerbaijan quite negatively for the first and the apparent reason of Azerbaijan being an unpredictable state due to the lack of mechanisms of democratic control, Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan stated on Wednesday at a press conference.  

In Minister Sargsyan’s words, the level of Azerbaijani aggressiveness is conditioned with combination of solely internal factors along with those defying any analysis.

“In this respect, any arm supplies – be those Russian, Israeli or Turkish weapons – create new risks since it would be difficult to predict who would be in charge of making decisions [in Azerbaijan] at a certain point,” Sargsyan said.

Moving on Armenia’s relations with its allies, the minister next said Armenia has partnership program with Russia. “That is a military technical, military political partnership program of allied relations in the spirit of a strategic relationship. We are satisfied with the course of the program implementation. That is an ambitious program which is constantly enhancing,” the minister noted, adding the dialogue with the Russian side is not limited to merely the amount of arms supply of certain type but rather is of more ‘long-term,’ ‘stabilizing’ nature.
Sargsyan stressed, however, no official in Armenia would ever speak with enthusiasm about Russian weapons supply to Azerbaijan.