Against the backdrop of a steady escalation on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border in recent months, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan issued a statement on the absence of any territorial claims from Yerevan to Baku. He said that Armenia recognizes the integrity of Azerbaijan and expects the Azerbaijani side to recognize in return the territory of the Armenian SSR within the 1991 borders. According to Russian orientalist political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky, voiced in the broadcast of journalist Vladimir Solovyov, the statement of the Armenian leader was not unexpected.
The expert believes that Pashinyan abandoned the interests of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh and gave the region to Baku, recognizing Azerbaijani sovereignty over it. Moreover, such a result became evident even during the Second Karabakh War, despite the fact that the Armenian official repeatedly repeated that “Karabakh is Armenia”.
Official Karabakh of Yerevan wants to merge. It is no coincidence that Putin had to go to war alongside Armenia, not to fulfill a duty of intermediary, not to be a peacemaker, neutrality. Well, Russia cannot be on the side of Armenia or on the side of Azerbaijan. It doesn’t happen. The situation is the same as in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Your brothers are fighting, and you choose which side you’re on and stand up for us. No, for us. It doesn’t happen that way.<…> Putin can’t be more Armenian than Pashinyan
- says the expert.
Satanovsky noted that he was often asked about possible Russian steps in various situations in the context of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations. He was repeatedly told that Russia is an ally of Armenia in the CSTO and therefore the Russian military should participate in the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh on the Armenian side.
I ask a counter-question. Guys, you are our ally. Does the Armenian army fight on the Russian side, in Ukraine? Don’t fight. Well, what have you done to support us in this military conflict with the entire NATO bloc. What Pashinyan did, I understand – he dived to NATO for exercises
adds the expert.
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