Moscow denied options that it had any hand in protests in Yerevan and cautioned Pashinyan that whereas Russia didn’t stoke revolutions, the West did Picture Courtesy Reuters
Nikol Pashinyan, the prime minister of Armenia, was knowledgeable by Russia on Monday that he was solely to answerable for Azerbaijan’s success in Nagorno-Karabakh as a result of he centered on courting the West slightly than cooperating with Moscow and Baku for peace.
In a speech to the nation on Sunday, Pashinyan claimed that Russia had let Armenia down by not doing sufficient to stop the battle over the breakaway territory. He additionally indicated that he must change Armenia’s safety partnerships.
Russia’s overseas ministry retaliated by criticising Pashinyan in extreme phrases.
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“We are convinced that the Yerevan leadership is making a massive mistake by deliberately trying to destroy Armenia’s multi-faceted and centuries-old ties with Russia while making the country hostage to the geopolitical games of the West,” it stated.
Following a swift onslaught by Azerbaijan final week, hundreds of ethnic Armenians fled into Armenia. The roughly 120,000 Armenians who reside in Karabakh have been assured by Baku that their rights might be protected, however many don’t imagine this to be true.
Internationally, Karabakh is taken into account to be Azerbaijani territory.
Russia, which deploys roughly 2,000 peacekeepers within the space, claimed Pashinyan was making an attempt to clear himself “of responsibility for failures in domestic and foreign policy by shifting the blame to Moscow”.
In line with the Russian overseas ministry, Pashinyan’s feedback on shifting alliances present that he’s on the brink of flip away from Armenia’s alliance with Moscow and in the direction of the West.
Russia stated that Pashinyan had “shied away from working in rhythm with Russia and Azerbaijan and instead had run to the West” to deal with the Karabakh downside and that Yerevan authorities had incited anti-Russian hysteria within the Armenian media.
Moscow refuted claims that it participated within the demonstrations in Yerevan and warned Pashinyan that whereas Russia didn’t incite revolutions, the West did.
“The head of the Armenian government should be well aware that Moscow does not get involved in such things – unlike the West which is pretty adept at organizing ‘colour revolutions’,” Russia stated.
Russia accuses the US of fomenting “colour revolutions” in various post-Soviet states, together with Ukraine.
(With company inputs)