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Azerbaijan is preparing to use force to regain control of territory it lost to Armenians more than two decades ago after international efforts to find a peaceful solution failed to bring results, its defense minister said.
“The time has come,” Azeri Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov said while visiting troops near the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, according to a statement on the ministry website on Thursday. “Our people have run out of patience and demand that we take action to drive the enemy out of our lands.”
Fighting would threaten the energy industry of the ex-Soviet Union’s third-biggest oil producer, where BP Plc and its partners have invested more than $50 billion since 1994. While Nagorno-Karabakh is more than 350 kilometers (220 miles) from Baku -- and even further from projects such as Shah Deniz that dot the Caspian Sea -- military activity may harm infrastructure. The BP-led Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline runs through land less than 50 kilometers from the cease-fire line.
WNU Editor: Apparently occurrences like this one .... Two Armenian drones shot down over Azerbaijan (Sputnik) .... are happening everyday. What has kept the peace is Russia .... Russia Would Intervene If Armenia And Azerbaijan Go To War .... but Armenia is facing political unrest and a government that is deeply unpopular .... Could Armenia Be The Next Ukraine? (OilPrice).
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A solution to global warming might just be to thin the herd once more.
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