The international events of the last few days, related to the next flare-up of hostilities in the Armenian-Azerbaijani war, were quite intense. First, the CSTO refused to fulfill its duties in the event that a neighboring country commits an obvious encroachment on the territory of a sovereign member state of the organization. In addition, there is an agreement between Armenia and Russia “On Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance” signed in 1997, which stipulates similar obligations, and which also was not fulfilled.
Vladimir Nebeznya, the representative of Russia in the UN Security Council, did not condemn Azerbaijan’s aggression, putting forward a rather dubious thesis: there was no border demarcation between Armenia and Azerbaijan, therefore, it is not possible to determine who attacked whom. However, there are dozens of states in the world between which demarcation as such has not taken place, but it is unlikely that this will cause aggression of one towards the other. During the discussion of the same issue in the UN Security Council, the United States, France, India, Norway, and Ireland took an unequivocal position, condemning the attack on peaceful settlements.
Finally, Pashinyan refused to participate in the conference of the Shanghai Organization, where Erdogan, Aliyev, Putin, but also Ebrahim Raisi, Xi Jinping, and other leaders were present. From a purely emotional point of view, I would not want the Prime Minister of Armenia to appear at this moment next to the head of the state whose soldiers tortured and dismembered an Armenian female soldier. As well as the other two, which encourage such atrocities. But I understand that in politics, especially in international relations, one should put aside emotions and calculate what is beneficial for Armenia: participating in such an event or not.
In addition to the above-mentioned events, Nancy Pelosi, the President of the US House of Representatives, is coming to Armenia today, and this fact has caused some euphoria in the “pro-Western” circles of our country.
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In general, the conversation in Armenia these days is emotional: “the Russians are cheating us,” “the West is on our side,” but if you look at the situation with a slightly more sober eye, you are sure that whatever the Russians are, they are the ones who are hindering whether our compatriots living in Artsakh will be massacred or deported. They also stand on the Armenian-Turkish border. And those who make pro-Armenian statements, no matter how friendly they are towards us, no matter how good their words sound to our ears, what they utter are, by and large, only words. Yes, Russia’s role in this whole story is, to put it mildly, ugly, but let’s think if it is not our fault here as well.
Aram Abrahamyan
