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Armenian Prime Minister: Relying only on Russia for security, "strategic mistake"

2023-09-03 16:10:22, Kosova & Bota CNA

Armenian Prime Minister: Relying only on Russia for security, "strategic

The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, has said that his country's policy of relying only on Russia to guarantee security has been a strategic mistake, because Moscow has not always been able to help.

In an interview with the Italian daily "La Repubblica", Pashinyan has accused Russia of failing to guarantee Armenia's security, as the latter faces aggression from neighboring Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Pashinyan has suggested that Moscow, which has a defense pact with Armenia and has military bases there, does not consider his country sufficiently pro-Russian and has said he believes Russia is in the process of withdrawing from the South Caucasus region.

According to him, this is one of the reasons why Yerevan is trying to increase agreements in the field of security.

These statements seem to have been a reference to strengthening ties with the European Union and the United States, and the latter's attempts to increase cooperation with other countries in that region.

"Armenia's security architecture has been 99.99 percent connected to Russia, including the procurement of weapons and ammunition," Pashinyan told "La Repubblica."

"Well, today we see that Russia itself needs weapons and ammunition [for the war in Ukraine] and in this situation it is understandable that even if it wants to, the Russian Federation cannot fulfill the security needs of Armenia."

"This example should demonstrate that depending on only one partner for security issues was a strategic mistake."

Moscow - which has brokered talks between Yerevan and Baku in the past - has not commented on the Armenian leader's stance.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a territory that is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but the 120,000 inhabitants there are an ethnic Armenian majority./ REL





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