Armenia ought to belief its neighbors over faraway “pals,” Turkish president Erdogan has stated
Armenia ought to work with Türkiye and Azerbaijan to construct peace as a substitute of trying to the West for weapons and coaching, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated on Monday, in thinly veiled criticism of the US and France.
Some Western powers have but to understand that the Karabakh Conflict has modified the Caucasus and your entire area, Erdogan stated in a press convention after a prolonged cupboard assembly in Ankara. He was referring to final month’s epilogue to the 2020 battle, which noticed Azerbaijan reclaim the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, adopted by the exodus of native ethnic Armenians.
“Those that incited Armenia for years and picked up revenue from the ache, troubles and conflicts of all of the individuals dwelling on this area really inflicted the best harm on the Armenians,” Erdogan stated. Whereas he didn’t title any names, essentially the most outstanding supporters of Yerevan within the West have been Paris and Washington.
“They abused Armenians, used them, and condemned them to insecurity by fueling unrealistic desires. Armenia now must see and settle for this reality,” Erdogan added.
It’s higher for the Armenian individuals and rulers to hunt safety in peace and cooperation with their neighbors, not 1000’s of kilometers away.
“No weapons and ammunition despatched by Western international locations can exchange the peace {that a} everlasting peace setting will present,” Erdogan added, urging Armenia to “settle for the hand of peace prolonged by our Azerbaijani brothers.”
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has sought to forge nearer ties with NATO within the aftermath of the Karabakh battle, whose consequence he tried accountable on treaty ally Russia. Each Moscow and Yerevan are members of the Collective Safety Treaty Group (CSTO).
Earlier this month, Armenian deputy protection minister and chief of the final employees, Lieutenant-Normal Edvard Asryan, visited the US European Command HQ in Stuttgart, Germany. The go to was a “milestone” because the US and Armenia sought to “intentionally and incrementally develop our protection relationship,” EUCOM stated in a press release afterward.
Yerevan has additionally reached out to Paris, making a deal final month to buy unspecified new weapons techniques from France. This has prompted Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev to declare that France can be accountable for any new battle within the area. Aliyev additionally pulled out of the EU-hosted peace summit in Grenada in early October, accusing the bloc of hostility in the direction of Baku.
Moscow has protested Armenia’s “hostile” actions and argued that there was nothing it might do to intervene in Nagorno Karabakh, not after Pashinyan himself explicitly and repeatedly acknowledged Azeri sovereignty over the disputed area.
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