(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 15. The
Russian Kommersant newspaper published an article refuting the
words of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan regarding the
trilateral statement of November 10, 2020, trend reports.
According to the article, Pashinyan's thesis during
yesterday's press conference that the Russian Federation is the
guarantor of the security of Azerbaijan's Karabakh sounded 'rather
unexpectedly.'
'There is no mention of guarantees from Russia
regarding Karabakh in the trilateral statement dated November 10,
2020,' the article said.
The article cites Pashinyan's words that Armenia
cannot rely solely on Russia.
'We have to record that the current security
architecture was not working. To be frank, we knew it would not
work,' he said, and acknowledged that his government was 'trying to
establish cooperation in the military-political sphere with
numerous other countries'. Moscow, he says, is aware of these
attempts,' the article added.
'At the same time, according to Nikol Pashinyan,
Armenia lost the war in the fall of 2020, not because of the
insufficient help of the allies (although he had hinted at this
factor more than once), but because the 'fifth column' was
operating in the army. Who he was referring to, he did not
specify,' the newspaper said.
According to the article, apparently, Nikol Pashinyan
considers influential Russian media managers of Armenian origin
Margarita Simonyan and Aram Gabrelyanov, as well as State Duma MP
Konstantin Zatulin, to be a 'fifth column', too.
Answering a reporter's question, he confirmed for the
first time that these people are indeed banned from entering
Armenia. 'Armenia is a sovereign state and has the right to expect
respect for itself, to use tools of sovereignty to suppress
encroachments against its interests,' he explained. 'Respect must
be shown including in relation to the authorities elected by the
people,' the article said.
According to the article, when it came to negotiations
on a peace treaty with Azerbaijan, Pashinyan made it clear that he
was committed to the Western format of the settlement and that it
was not worth expecting an early transition to the Russian
format.
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