02:16 GMT +323 May 2019

A picture taken on February 16, 2015 shows an Armenian serviceman guarding an area near the village of Movses, close to the border with Azerbaijan

Armenia Rejects Israeli Proposal on Arms Purchase - Defense Minister

© AFP 2019 / KAREN MINASYAN

18:06 11.04.2016Get short URL

2305

Armenia has rejected Israel's offer to purchase its arms, First Deputy Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan said Monday.

YEREVAN (Sputnik) — According to Tonoyan, arms procurement market is open to Armenia, but there are some political restrictions due to the reluctance of the EU countries and the United States to promote the growth of military capabilities in the Karabakh conflict zone.

"Israel has offered us arms similar to those sold to Azerbaijan. We refused because we deem it unnecessary," the minister said in an interview with the Azatutyun radio.

Earlier in April, Armenia’s defense ministry claimed that Azerbaijan's army was using the Harop drone produced by Israel.

Masters of Artillery Fire competition in Saratov Region

© Sputnik / Maksim Blinov

Chile Ready for Talks With Russia on Purchase of New Types of Arms

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been engaged in a dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh since 1988, when the Armenian-dominated autonomous region left the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and proclaimed independence after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. This move triggered a war that lasted until a Russia-brokered ceasefire was signed in 1994.

The violence in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on April 2. Baku and Yerevan have accused each other of provoking hostilities.

Following five days of clashes that led to fatal casualties on both sides, the ceasefire was implemented.

Related:: Moscow, Tehran in Talks on Purchases of Wide Range of Russian Arms

: Huge US Government Arms Delivery to Al-Qaeda Revealed by Official Website

: Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis Could Get Messy If New Arms Suppliers Emerge

Tags:

Davit Tonoyan, Israel, Armenia

Community standardsDiscussion

Comment via FacebookComment via Sputnik

Сomment
Thank you! Your comment will be reviewed by the moderator for compliance with the Rules
Add more
Post limit reached. Please try again in a minute.
Your comment contains a link, so it can't be published on our site

Сomment

Community standards

The fact of registration and authorization of users on Sputnik websites via users’ account or accounts on social networks indicates acceptance of these rules.

Users are obliged abide by national and international laws. Users are obliged to speak respectfully to the other participants in the discussion, readers and individuals referenced in the posts.

The websites’ administration has the right to delete comments made in languages other than the language of the majority of the websites’ content.

In all language versions of the sputniknews.com websites any comments posted can be edited.

A user comment will be deleted if it:

does not correspond with the subject of the post;
promotes hatred and discrimination on racial, ethnic, sexual, religious or social basis or violates the rights of minorities;
violates the rights of minors, causing them harm in any form, including moral damage;
contains ideas of extremist nature or calls for other illegal activities;
contains insults, threats to other users, individuals or specific organizations, denigrates dignity or undermines business reputations;
contains insults or messages expressing disrespect to Sputnik;
violates privacy, distributes personal data of third parties without their consent or violates privacy of correspondence;
describes or references scenes of violence, cruelty to animals;
contains information about methods of suicide, incites to commit suicide;
pursues commercial objectives, contains improper advertising, unlawful political advertisement or links to other online resources containing such information;
promotes products or services of third parties without proper authorization;
contains offensive language or profanity and its derivatives, as well as hints of the use of lexical items falling within this definition;
contains spam, advertises spamming, mass mailing services and promotes get-rich-quick schemes;
promotes the use of narcotic / psychotropic substances, provides information on their production and use;
contains links to viruses and malicious software;
is part of an organized action involving large volumes of comments with identical or similar content ("flash mob");
“floods” the discussion thread with a large number of incoherent or irrelevant messages;
violates etiquette, exhibiting any form of aggressive, humiliating or abusive behavior ("trolling");
doesn’t follow standard rules of the English language, for example, is typed fully or mostly in capital letters or isn’t broken down into sentences.

The administration has the right to block a user’s access to the page or delete a user’s account without notice if the user is in violation of these rules or if behavior indicating said violation is detected.

Users can initiate the recovery of their account / unlock access by contacting the moderators at moderator@sputniknews.com

The letter must contain:

Subject - the restoration of account / unlock access
User ID
An explanation of the actions which were in violation of the rules above and resulted in the lock.

If the moderators deem it possible to restore the account / unlock access, it will be done.

In the case of repeated violations of the rules above resulting in a second block of a user’s account, access cannot be restored.

To contact the team of moderators, write to moderator@sputniknews.com