Republic of Turkey through the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested the Armenian side to participate in aerial photography works of Turkey’s some provinces adjacent to the Republic of Armenia. RA Defense Ministry representatives – Topography Division Deputy Head Lt. Colonel Arthir Galstyan and aerophotographer Lt. Colonel Gevorg Khurshudyan went to Turkey for this purpose.

Azerbaijan SSR’s and present Azerbaijan Republic’s policy of forced “Turkisation” and “Azerbaijanisation” continues till now. Using primitive “demographic arithmetic” this country tries “to make as Turks” Turkic-speaking Iranian people who live in the north of Iran exactly the same way as it was “making as Turks” living in that country 93 ethnicities..

On August 14 Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan mentioned that in geopolitical meaning “vertical position” is successful for Armenia, i.e. cooperation with Russian Federation, Georgia, Iran, meanwhile in “horizontal direction” there are problems between Armenia-Turkey and Armenia-Azerbaijan.

One month has been left till the trainings of “Cooperation-2012” of OCSA Collective Forces of Quick Reaction which will be held this year in our country in the training centre after Marshal Baghramyan.
To prepare duly to such an important event for our national army from last year vast constructing work is being done. The central observing tower has been fully renovated, modern conditions have been created for specialists, guests, journalists, command point has been enlarged.

On July 13 Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan received OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen Robert Bradtke, Igor Popov and Jacque Faure.
On co-chairmen’s request the Minister introduced the current situation on the line of contact saying that recently tension has been increased and ceasefire regime violations have become frequent.

At last the issue of Stepanakert airport opening was resolved about which there were talks for 1,5 years. The official Baku assured the Minsk Group co-chairmen that it will not use force at civil crafts.
Summarizing their regional visit of July 11-13, the co-chairmen particularly said: “In connection with Stepanakert airport opening we got parties assurances that the issue will be discussed diplomatically and t will not be politicized”.

In various official statements it is made a special emphasis that «Azerbaijan doesn’t possess biological weapons» (representative of USA embassy in Azerbaijan), or – «there is no proof which would indicate that Baku possesses biological weapons» or «seeks to create such weapons» («Initiative against nuclear weapons»).