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At a press conference on May 22, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared that Armenia is ready to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, provided that the security of the Armenian population is ensured.
“But we must fix that the issue of the rights and security of the Armenians in Nagorno—Karabakh should be discussed in the Stepanakert—Baku dialogue,” he added.
According to Pashinyan, Armenia expects international guarantees that such negotiations will be held.
Earlier, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated that Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh will have to take Azerbaijani citizenship or leave the territory. The head of Azerbaijan noted that ethnic Armenians living in the disputed territory need to make a choice.
“There is complete freedom here, everything is decided on the basis of democratic processes. This issue should also be resolved on the basis of human rights,” Aliyev said.
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There are no drastic changes in Pashinyan’s policy. He was pursuing such a decision in recent months. In mid-April, he claimed that Armenia is ready to recognize the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan within the framework of the Azerbaijani SSR, that is including its control of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The same tendance was perceived years ago when he lost the battle for the region in 2020. Then, many blamed Pashinyan for having deliberately thrown the battle in favor of Baku.
Nagorno-Karabakh has always been a stick in Yerevan’s wheel riding towards NATO and the EU. The conflict was also the reason for the deployment of the Russian military, power of Moscow’s military and diplomatic influence in the region.
The scenario of abandoning Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenia was proposed by Washington.
Pashinyan’s arguments to give up on Nagorno-Karabakh are accompanied by the ongoing complaints towards Russia. On May 22, he said that Armenia may withdraw from the CSTO if it considers it an “incompetent organization.”
“If Armenia de jure decides to withdraw from the CSTO, it will happen after Armenia records that the CSTO has left Armenia. Such an agenda exists if the CSTO becomes an inactive organization. Then we will have to solve our own security issues,” Pashinyan said.
Armenian leader once again reproached the CSTO for alleged inaction, while not mentioning an important detail that the Armenian authorities themselves asked to postpone the ratification of the presence of observers of the Organization in the country.
On May 17, Russian Foreign Minister revealed that the CSTO mission was supposed to be deployed in Armenia last fall. According to him, the necessary documents were prepared, but the Armenian authorities asked to postpone their approval.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the United States is trying to “shake up the situation” in the CSTO, in particular, to withdraw Armenia from it.
“To the Armenians (we have such information) they say, come on, come to us, drive the Russians out of your territory, and the border guards too, remove the military base, the Americans will help ensure security. Outright provocation. This is also not diplomacy,” Lavrov said.
Here is the pretext aimed to slander Russia’s role in the peacekeeping process, which allegedly forces Armenia to look for “new partners”.
Pashinyan confirmed that the current leadership of the country does not intend to protect the people of the unrecognized Republic. Recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, Yerevan is making concessions to Baku, risking to provoke a split in Armenian society and an explosion of discontent in the republic. The Armenian opposition already accused Pashinyan of surrendering Nagorno-Karabakh.
not about land or the pipeline……mostly ghost towns ravaged by the quakes and earlier fighting….
the afghan mujahdeen posted around there in the 90s? any survivors or are we dealing with…..that guy….
santa esmerelda – im just a soul whose intentions are good.
tô the victor goes the spoils. i have no sympathy for the armenians. if this land was so important they should have fought harder.
so he got soldiers killed so he can say to his people look russia is not helping we can’t fight the azeris and turks let’s hand them the land so we can join the eu / nato.
russia should call all it’s people in the entire world back home. if there are russians in armenia once they left the csto the us will push them to persecute and attack them as well.
russians betrayed armenia and love keeping aliye. as a dog to bark when its neighbors arent behaving. sadly armenia also had very corrupt generals and government ruledd by russian mafia. long time communism also does things to the brain.
iran betrayed armenia but russia didn’t. pashinyan was the one that brought soros to armenia, now he is reaping the “benefits”.
there is no sorros in armenia just in propaganda, armenia was unprepared russia used azeris just like it always does as any power will do, divide and conquer just like stalin did and just us does. only blind idiots dont see this. there are no good guys here but armenia paying the price that historically was gaken away by stalin is unfair but nothing can be done about it now. in this dog eat dog world only the ones with bigger guns make the rules.
that’s right, both stalin and soros wanted armenia weaker.
soros’ open society has had a presence in armenia since the 1990s. it has become a major player in the tiny and impoverished country since 2018. soros, ned, british council, european council and an army of western ngos were behind pashinyan’s rise to power five years ago.
soros is like a bad case of hemorrhoids. he looks like it too. fugly pig.
in fact pashinyan tried to ally with western losers and found himself losing, like everyone in the corpse pit of people who tried to ally with the west
sevanoglu, you’re an idiot
poor guy.. what is he supposed to do? his country’s protector is so weak.
pashinyan is idiot. he can use big powers like china or india to their cause but he acts like a puppet. also, in the region, armenians can ally with egyptians, arabs, syrians and kurds to stop the turkish-iranian expansion, however, kurds outside pkk/ypg/pjak are supported by either turkey or iran or both.
then russia should recognize atsark (nk) and guarantee it’s security. sime armenians would simply leave pashinyan, the fagg and relocate in nk. putin must not make any more concession to turkey especially through aliyev
un cacacios
darebácky štát usa zase rozdúchava vášne nenávisti. rf by mala začať konať skôr ako príde zase k nejakej nezmyselnej vojne.
say goodbye to the armenian population of that region. they will fare as well as the kosovo serbs.
why am i not surprised, the russians threw the armenians and nk under the proverbial buss, all to show how far and wide the duma can spread its buttcheeks for the tribe and turds, witch are both turko-mongols, and also is a long time friend of the dick running in baku. yeah, how kind of the russians, this should show you all that russia is corrupted to their bone marrow, tsk, tsk, tsk. i warned russians years ago, and stands with it, 10 y. and russia is gone, because of you never learn do you.
israel is backing azerbaijan. if armenia kicks out the russians and invites i’m the americans (who work hand in hand with the zionists) then it would be like letting the foxes right in to the hen house.
burn the city to the ground like others in that region do when they have to turn over property. leave it in total ruins. fair is fair isn’t it gents..
post-soviet armenia has been a playground for western, israeli and turkish intelligence agencies. the quicker russia annexes armenia and artsakh the better. armenia won’t survive another 30 years of “independence”. i say this as an armenian patriot.
pashinyan is a traitor and this is his plan all along. he is bought western stooge. armenians should have ditched him when they had a chance, when he was hiding in a hole. azerbaijan is another israeli outpost like turkiye.
is this till a good idea?
4:31 pm cst june 23, 2023 charity colleen crouse
how much did lukashenko say it was?