“Everything can collapse”
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan statedThat Yerevan is not acting as an ally of Russia on the Ukraine issue. The politician said this at a meeting with representatives of the Armenian diaspora in Germany:
“I have been saying for a long time that Armenia is not an ally of Russia regarding Ukraine. This is our sincere attitude. It makes us very sad that we cannot influence this situation. “The Ukrainian people are friendly people for us.”
As the Prime Minister recalled, in 1991, the former republics of the Soviet Union, including Russia and Ukraine, signed the Alma-Ata Declaration, recognizing each other’s borders. Pashinyan described this document as “recognition of the territorial integrity of the republics”.
“The same logic applies to Ukraine. The statement concerns everyone. And if we destroy it, everything may collapse,” Pashinyan noted.
“They came up with all kinds of nonsense.”
Vladimir Putin at the “Results of the Year” press conference in December aforementioned All residents of the Southeast of Ukraine have always been pro-Russian, as these regions have been historically Russian. According to the President, “Turkey also knows well” that as a result of the Russian-Turkish wars, the lands of the Black Sea region went to Russia and Ukraine has nothing to do with these lands. He also called Odessa a Russian city.
According to the Russian leader, Vladimir Lenin “transferred everything to Ukraine during the formation of the Soviet Union.”
“We accepted this after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We gave up on ourselves and were ready to live in such a paradigm. But this part is Southeast [Украины], – pro-Russian. This was important to us too. <…> We know this. Everyone knows this well. No, they came up with all kinds of historical nonsense,” Putin said.
INSIDE report The Russian President once again explained his position to American journalist Tucker Carlson; Accordingly, after the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine received from Russia as a gift a large number of territories that had nothing to do with it; Black Sea region.”
break with Russia
Armenian Prime Minister also attended the meeting in Germany reported About the absence of an article in the statement dated November 9, 2020 regarding the possibility of the Russian side controlling transport communications passing through the territory of the republic.
“There is no statement in the 9th paragraph of the tripartite statement that Russia can control anything on our territory. In fact, Azerbaijan and Russia tore up other points of this document and completely violated their obligations,” Pashinyan emphasized.
At the same time, he placed the responsibility for the complete withdrawal of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh on the Russian peacekeeping force.
How stated Earlier in the week, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, decided to expand the partnership after a meeting of the EU Council (Armenia, the European Union and Yerevan). As the diplomat noted, last year Armenia expressed its readiness to move towards the EU, after which ways to strengthen relations began to be developed.
Recent events that may indicate a change in relations between Yerevan and Moscow include the refusal to participate in the international tournament “Games of the Future – 2024”, which will be held in Kazan from February 21 to March 3. About this decision a day ago reported Artur Sedrakyan, Head of the Youth Sports Department of the Armenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports. According to him, the country received invitations to the games, but registered specialized companies could not choose the participants to play the games.
At the beginning of February, Pashinyan stated About the existence of “objective and subjective reasons” that the Russian Federation cannot become a key partner of the republic in the defense and military-technical spheres.