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Benyamin Poghosyan, Chairman, Center for political and economic strategic studies Azerbaijan launched a new, large-scale aggression against Armenia on September 13, and the absence of tangible actions by the CSTO to stop Azerbaijan’s attacks have reinvigorated discussions in Armenia about the country’s potential withdrawal from the CSTO. This recent wave of public discontent in Armenia about the CSTO coincided with a visit to Armenia by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which added a geopolitical component to the discussions, given the complete rupture of relations between the United States and Russia. On the very day of Azerbaijan’s aggression, Armenia officially appealed […]
By Mark Dovich In recent days, Russian officials have ruled out Azerbaijani control of a crucial overland route crossing Armenia, called for the “withdrawal of forces to their initial positions” following Azerbaijan’s attack on Armenia two weeks ago, and accused the West of meddling in the region. In a lengthy interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta published Friday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk effectively ruled out Azerbaijani control of a planned overland route to connect mainland Azerbaijan with Nakhichevan via Armenia, saying, “Sovereignty over the road (will be) exercised by the country through whose territory the road passes.” Baku has repeatedly […]
By Mark Dovich The Armenian government plans to increase its defense budget next year to over 501 billion drams, or about $1.2 billion, according to a draft government budget made public Thursday. If passed, it would be the first time Armenia’s military budget has ever topped $1 billion and would represent a year-on-year increase of over 47%. The National Assembly, which must sign off on the funding, traditionally debates government budgets in November and December. The money would be earmarked for five areas, according to the draft budget: “defense support programs, military healthcare and healthcare services, military education and training, […]
The International Crisis Group, a well-regarded NGO based in Brussels, has published a report about Azerbaijan’s major attack on September 13 and 14. In the report, Crisis Group analysts outline four possible reasons why Azerbaijan is choosing now to escalate the situation. Credits: ruptly
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By Hovhannes Nazaretyan, #CivilNetCheck In speeches at the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly earlier this month, Azerbaijani diplomats made several false statements, especially with regards to Baku’s attacks on Armenia on September 13 and 14. In his speech at the Security Council meeting on September 15, Azerbaijani representative Yashar Aliyev claimed Azerbaijan’s response to “Armenia’s provocations” were “limited and targeted as legitimate military objects.” At the General Assembly speech, Azerbaijan’s top diplomat, foreign minister Jeyhun Bayramov, insisted on the same point. “The armed forces of Azerbaijan demonstrated utmost restraint and professionalism, and limited to targeting exclusively fire […]
By Mark Dovich Three Armenian soldiers were killed in action Wednesday evening in the latest violation of the fragile ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan that came into effect two weeks ago. “As a result of Azerbaijan’s provocation, the Armenian side has three losses,” a spokesperson for Armenia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday. Clashes began at 6 p.m. local time and ended by 10 p.m., according to Armenia’s Defense Ministry, which said that “units of the armed forces of Azerbaijan opened fire toward Armenian positions in the eastern direction of the border, using mortars and large-caliber weapons,” prompting “retaliatory actions” by Armenian […]
Armen Grigoryan, Armenia’s Security Council head, and Hikmet Hajiyev, a senior assistant to Azerbaijan’s president, met yesterday at the White with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. France, the United Kingdom, and the United States have separately called on Azerbaijani forces to return to their initial positions after launching a major attack on Armenia earlier this month. Former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan said during a press conference that it would be “absurd” to expect Russia or the Collective Security Treaty Organization to intervene militarily in the region.
