“Russian air defense won’t shot down Azerbaijani aircraft”
Today at the NA extraordinary session during the discussion of high-profile agreement on “the Creation of a United Regional Air Defense System in the Caucasus Region of Collective Security between the RA and the RF”, the Armenian National Congress (HAK) faction member Hrant Bagratyan, addressing the Deputy Defense Minister, said, “If you state that it is really harmless and useful for Armenia, I am not against.” The HAK faction member Nikol Pashinyan reminded Ara Nazaryan that Head of the RA Air Defense announced during one of his interviews that at present we don’t have powerful aviation, “Why don’t we have those systems in these 25 years? Also, at present you directly say that Russia has powerful air defense systems and in case of necessity it will use them. Now, if the RA Air Defense gives a command to the Russian squadron to begin a flight, and Russia gives the opposite command, what will finally those aircrafts do?” Ara Nazaryan, answering the first question, said that having such systems is a matter of capabilities for the state, according to the priorities, “If there were capabilities, we would have. As for the second question I can say that such processes are not regulated only by giving commands; there are relevant documents for it, plans of usage, as in which cases they will be used.” Nikol Pashinyan said that once again he wants to remind the high ranking officials that their responsibility is increasing the capabilities of the state, “After Four-day war, there is no impulse that you have carried out that service. Simply say that the air defense of the Russian military base will not shot down an Azerbaijani aircraft, and that they are intended in case of the 4th and 5th world wars, where Armenia has no interest.” In reply Ara Nazaryan refrained from answering, “I couldn’t understand your question, as you went to different poles.”
