Armenia no longer considers the Russian Federation a guarantor of security; Russian “peacekeepers” have not fulfilled their mission.
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this in an interview with Politico.
As a result of events in Ukraine, Russia’s capabilities have changed, said the Prime Minister of Armenia.
According to Pashinyan, Moscow is seeking to move away from the removal of Azerbaijan and its close ally Turkey, whose strategic importance for the Kremlin has grown since the start of the war against Ukraine.
Our strategy should be to try to reduce our dependence on others as much as possible in this situation. We want to have an independent country, a sovereign country, but we must have ways to avoid being at the center of clashes between West and East, North and South,” the Armenian prime minister noted.
Earlier, Racurs wrote about the demarche of the Russians towards the Armenian ambassador. Moscow took offense at its CSTO ally through several, in its opinion, anti-Russian actions.
This week, Armenia sent humanitarian aid to Kyiv for the first time since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine. This was announced by the wife of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the summit of first ladies and gentlemen on September 6.
In addition, Armenia will hold joint military exercises with the United States. In preparation for participation in international peacekeeping missions, joint Armenian-American military exercises “EAGLE PARTNER 2023” will be held from September 11 to 20 in Armenia at the training center of the peacekeeping brigade of the Armenian Ministry of Defense “Zar”.
Another reason for the Russians’ demarche is the launch by Armenia of the process of ratification of the Rome Statute, which makes the country a participant in the International Criminal Court in The Hague (it issued an arrest warrant for the president as a Russian, Vladimir Putin).
Source: Racurs
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