ANC of Canada Calls On Ottawa to Immediately Halt Arms Sales to Baku

OTTAWA, Canada””The Armenian National Committee of Canada is appalled to learn that the Canadian government has granted an export permit for the transfer of highly sophisticated military equipment from the Toronto-based INKAS Armored Vehicle Manufacturing.

In a letter addressed to Canada?s Minister of International Trade, François-Philippe Champagne on July 24, the ANCC called upon the Canadian government to immediately halt the transfer of weapons to Azerbaijan and take the necessary steps to reverse this wrong decision.

?Such transfers of dangerous weaponry to a rogue states such as Azerbaijan violate the very basic norms of Canada?s arms exports regulations and pose a significant danger to domestic and regional stability? said Shahen Mirakian, president of the ANCC.

“As has been demonstrated repeatedly thus far, the Azeri regime is adamant on using such equipment not only to perpetuate regional instability by threatening the peace and security of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), but also to crack down on dissent at home,”