He gave the example of US operations in Iraq.
"Shall we come out and say ‘it’s forbidden once and for all to write about the army, just as the United States did during the Iraq war. Go mind your business, we’re fighting a battle’?”
“Did you hear dear journalists? Write the truth,” said the Vice Speaker addressing the journalists attending the event.
Asgarov said that the Azerbaijani Army is one of the most democratic armies in the world.
“Thoughts about the provision that will reflect the possibilities of army’s interference in political processes in the bill “On the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan” are also false. The Armed Forces doesn’t consist of just the army. The army has nothing to do with domestic policy. It will be the Interior Troops that will deal with internal issues, not the army,” he said.
Asgarov also commented on Tahir Karimli’s proposal to give the Azerbaijani Army the authority of pursuing the enemy in the territory of invader country, along with expelling the enemy from our territory.
“Mr. Tahir, then we will be occupiers,” he said.
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