Azerbaijan will not be able to be structured into a large force or be equipped to a sufficient degree to overcome the advantages of territory enjoyed by the defense forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian army even with its will to improve its military capability, the former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse said, “Nouvelles d` Arménie” writes.

According to the cable of July 2, 2009, published on Wikileaks and “Russian reporter,” Azerbaijan is presenting a “much rosy scenario for Nagorno-Karabakh, than logically expected.”

Anne Derse served as U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2006 to 2009. Currently she is the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania.

In a cable in January 2009, Anne Derse also noted that “the president’s rhetoric has exceeded significantly the results of military construction in Azerbaijan.