The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said that Moscow takes its bilateral and multilateral obligations seriously, presumably in response to Armenia’s National Security Chief Armen Grigoryan, who said that the Armenian authorities expect Russia to step up and provide Armenia with military and diplomatic assistance.
The Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Wednesday emphasize Moscow’s commitments when asked about the Armenia-Russia strategic agreement signed in 1997.
“Russia takes its bilateral and multilateral obligations seriously. Relevant bilateral consultations are held. As for the CSTO, according to our information, they are closely monitoring the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border,” Zakharova added referring to Azerbaijan’s attack of Armenia’s border on Tuesday.
Grigoryan, Armenia’s National Security chief, also mentioned the 1997 agreement telling the Russian Kommersant newspaper that Yerevan’s expectations from Moscow stemmed from the same treaty.
“This [Azerbaijan’s attack on Tuesday] is an act of aggression. In 1997 Armenia and Russia agreed to help one another in such cases. This is exactly why we applied to Russia,” he said.
“We are in favor of a diplomatic solution to the matter. But if not possible to resolve the matter through diplomacy, then the issue must be resolved militarily,” added Grigoryan.
“But if a solution isn’t found we will start considering other options,” Grigoryan told Kommersant.
Zakharova told the press that through Moscow’s mediation efforts, a ceasefire was established on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
“We call on both sides to show restraint, not to allow new incidents, to resolve all disputes exclusively through political-diplomatic means,” Zakharova said.
“Recent events confirm the need for an immediate start of the demarcation and subsequent delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, as well as the commencement of the work of the relevant commission on the basis of previously submitted Russian proposals,” added Zakharova. She also called on the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to urgently organize a visit to the region.
Russian complicity– no longer veiled behavior–supports the pressure from Turkey-Azeris with U.S. being oblivious.
Pashinyan nor anyone has a chance.
Hahaha the title made me laugh! I wish it was funny but it is not. Duplicitous Russians!
The proof is in the pudding as they say. You have to be a fool to believe anything these double-talking Russian leaders have to say anymore. They showed their TRUE color during the last war imposed on their presumed Armenian ally by half a dozen terrorist states and criminal gangs.
Russia did absolutely nothing but sit back and watch a large-scale attack on their Armenian ally by genocidal terrorist Turkey and criminal artificial Azerbaijan together with fatherless Syrian ISIS criminal paid-mercenaries with massive and deadly weapons acquired from devil-worshiping Pakistan, despotic Belarus and two-faced hypocritical and morally-bankrupt Israel.
Russia took action only when the time was right for the Russian occupying forces, disguised as peacekeepers, to move into the region from which they were expelled and kicked out some thirty years ago. That was their plan. To reestablish themselves in their former “Soviet territory” occupied by Soviet criminals for seventy years!
Ռուս = Սպիտակ Թուրք!