Azerbaijan threatens to down Armenian flights

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jimmy olsen

March 17, 2011, 09:26:21 AM
I'd think twice if I was them, the West is distracted with the crisis in Japan and the Arabs, but the Russians won't ignore war breaking out in the near abroad.

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Thursday, March 17, 2011
BAKU - Agence France-Presse

Azerbaijan on Wednesday threatened to shoot down civilian planes flying to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region if the separatist Armenian authorities who control the region reopen an airport there.

Azerbaijan considers Karabakh to be occupied by the Armenians, and Baku's state aviation agency said it has told the International Civil Aviation Organization, or ICAO, that the region's airspace was closed and any flights would be unauthorized.

"According to the law on aviation, it is even possible to physically destroy airplanes which are heading there," said Arif Mammadov, the director of Azerbaijan's Civil Aviation Administration, in comments to local media. "We asked the ICAO to notify the opposing side in order to prevent incidents," he said.

The separatist Karabakh authorities have been rebuilding the airport near their de facto capital Stepanakert and plan to restart commercial flights to Yerevan in May.

The airport has been closed since the outbreak of the Karabakh war in the early 1990s, which saw ethnic Armenian forces backed by Yerevan seize control over the region from Baku amid fighting that left an estimated 30,000 dead.

An official at the separatist Karabakh presidential office said that "criminal" threats would not stop the planned flights, which are set to begin amid increasing tensions and exchanges of gunfire across the ceasefire line which has divided the two sides since the end of the war.

"We are determined to open the airport, no matter whom it vexes in Azerbaijan," the official, David Babaian, told the PanArmenian news agency.

"Any slight attempt Azerbaijan might take will be fraught with unpredictable repercussions for Azerbaijan itself," he said.

Azerbaijan has threatened to use force to win back Karabakh if peace talks do not yield satisfactory results, while Armenia has warned of large-scale retaliation if Baku launches any military action.
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derspiess

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March 17, 2011, 10:22:52 AM
I support our Azerbaijani brothers and oppose this aggressive act by Armenia.
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HisMajestyBOB

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March 17, 2011, 11:09:43 AM
:yes:
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Berkut

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March 17, 2011, 12:33:43 PM
I am strongly for and against one side and the other side in their efforts to secure freedom and/or destroy the rebels.
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Caliga

#4
March 17, 2011, 12:38:36 PM
I think Spellus has been recovered from his Armenian obsession for quite some time now.
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MadImmortalMan

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March 17, 2011, 12:46:25 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 17, 2011, 09:26:21 AM
I'd think twice if I was them

And you teach English.   :P
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JonasSalk

#6
March 17, 2011, 12:54:28 PM
Are they really that eager to start another war considering the ass-kicking they got last time?
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derspiess

#7
March 17, 2011, 01:48:52 PM
Quote from: JonasSalk on March 17, 2011, 12:54:28 PM
Are they really that eager to start another war considering the ass-kicking they got last time?

They have money now, plus US & Turkish backing.
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Josquius

#8
March 17, 2011, 01:57:50 PM
Go Armenia go.
Sure, they're Russian supported, but they're the good guys. Azerbaijan has an exclave deep in Armenia afterall so they're being really dickish not to respect the will of the people in the area.
Unfortuntaely Azerbaijan are much richer and more likely to win in such a war barring Russia getting involved.
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Razgovory

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March 17, 2011, 03:07:45 PM
Quote from: derspiess on March 17, 2011, 01:48:52 PM
Quote from: JonasSalk on March 17, 2011, 12:54:28 PM
Are they really that eager to start another war considering the ass-kicking they got last time?

They have money now, plus US & Turkish backing.

Don't we back both sides?
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Ed Anger

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March 17, 2011, 05:06:59 PM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on March 17, 2011, 11:09:43 AM
:yes:
The forces of Spellusism must be resisted!

Spellus is a fucking hipster.
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derspiess

#11
March 17, 2011, 07:06:43 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 17, 2011, 03:07:45 PM
Quote from: derspiess on March 17, 2011, 01:48:52 PM
Quote from: JonasSalk on March 17, 2011, 12:54:28 PM
Are they really that eager to start another war considering the ass-kicking they got last time?

They have money now, plus US & Turkish backing.

Don't we back both sides?

Maybe, but Armenia is within the Sov-- err, Russian sphere of influence.  Russia's backing more than cancels out our own.  Azerbaijan is a more valuable ally for us anyway.
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Razgovory

#12
March 17, 2011, 07:30:29 PM
How can you tell which is more valuable?
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derspiess

#13
March 17, 2011, 07:33:22 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 17, 2011, 07:30:29 PM
How can you tell which is more valuable?

Oil, geographic position, hatred for Russia.
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