Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Defense: Expert claims that corruption will never allow Azerbaijan to create its Army

Zardusht Alizade, an Azerbaijan political scientist has said that corruption will never allow Azerbaijan to create its Army. He was commenting the statement of Azerbaijan's FM Elmar Mamediarov about the readiness to give Karabakh the "highest autonomy status".

In an interview with the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper, he said that the authorities continuously change their positions. Arminfo News Agency, quotes him as saying, "The only thing that remains unchanged is the position that this problem can be resolved in the framework of territorial integrity. It proceeds from the fact that Azerbaijan has no possibility to put pressure on Armenia. Authorities themselves do not strive to this as the most important for them is to grab more and not to resolve the Karabakh conflict".

Quoting Lenin, he added "As Lenin said, where corruption exists, no development can be there".