Nikol Pashinyan
Pashinyan accused the Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh of the failure of their mission
Baku/14.09.23/Turan: Russian peacekeepers failed to cope with their tasks in Nagorno-Karabakh, the security situation in the region is rapidly deteriorating, This Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sttated yesterday in an interview with the American newspaper "Politico."
According to him, the peacekeepers have actually eliminated the tasks set by the trilateral agreement between Moscow, Yerevan and Baku in November 2020. First of all, this concerns the blockade of the Lachin corridor by Azerbaijan.
"All this should have been the responsibility of the Russian peacekeepers, but they failed their mission," he said. According to Pashinyan, all this is the result of "the decline of Russian influence in the region." He believes that Armenia needs to strengthen its sovereignty without relying on Russia.
"We want to have an independent country, a sovereign country, but we must have ways not to be at the center of clashes between West and East, North and South," he said.
According to Pashinyan, Russia is interested in cooperation with Turkey and Azerbaijan and does not want to spoil relations with them. After the war with Ukraine, Russia's dependence on Turkey and Azerbaijan increased even more. He noted that this is the second anti-Russian attack by the Armenian Prime Minister in recent days.
His previous interview with "La Republica" caused outrage in Moscow and the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a condemning statement. ---0---
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