Yerevan trying to sell its loyalty, obedience to Moscow at higher price
By Rashid Shirinov
Yerevan is trying to sell its loyalty and obedience to Moscow,
delicately referred to as friendship, at a higher price, Vitaly
Arkov, head of the PolitRUS expert network, told Azernews on
September 17.
He noted that Yerevan’s reorientation from Moscow to Washington
will predictably affect the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The expert also said that the provocative statement by Pashinyan in
Moscow regarding Nagorno-Karabakh can be regarded as blackmailing
Russia with its plan for a phased peaceful settlement of the
conflict.
“The West has previously participated in the settlement process
both within the OSCE Minsk Group format and through individual
projects, but it was namely Russia that proposed the most realistic
plan considering the interests of Azerbaijan and Armenia,” he said,
noting that putting the plan into practice was hampered by the
Armenian side, who was delaying the process by putting a priori
unenforceable conditions.
The expert noted that now it is obvious for what purpose it was
done – Armenia’s transition to a new patron automatically implies a
rejection of obligations to the former patron or a revision of
their terms.
He further noted that the new Armenian authorities are obviously
blackmailing Moscow, or at least trying to do this.
“And in case of Russia’s rejection of the new terms, Armenia
threatens to completely and finally defect to the side of the new
patron,” Arkov added.
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