Armenia will recognize Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan if security guaranteed: PM

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Armenia is ready to recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave as part of Azerbaijan if Baku guarantees the security of its ethnic Armenian population, the Russian state news agency TASS and the Russian news outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti quoted Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as saying on Monday.

Nagorno-Karabakh has been a source of conflict between the two Caucasus neighbors since the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and between ethnic Armenians and Turkic Azeris for well over a century.

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In 2020, Azerbaijan seized control of areas that had been controlled by ethnic Armenians in and around the mountain enclave, and since then it has periodically closed the only access road linking Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, on which the enclave relies for financial and military support.

“The 86,600 sq km of Azerbaijan’s territory includes Nagorno-Karabakh,” Pashinyan told a news conference, according to Ostorozhno, Novosti.

“If we understand each other correctly, then Armenia recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan within the named limits, and Baku - the territorial integrity of Armenia at 29,800 sq km.”

The outlet quoted him as saying he was prepared to do this - in effect accept Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized borders - if the rights of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh were guaranteed. He said the issue should be discussed in talks between the two countries.

“Armenia remains committed to the peace agenda in the region. And we hope that in the near future we will come to an agreement on the text of the peace treaty and be able to sign it,” he said, according to TASS.

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Magicalsandwichpress on May 23rd, 2023 at 00:22 UTC »

Azerbaijan have de Jure, and now de facto control over the region, with Arminia isolated from international community and blockaded by Turkey, Baku holds all the cards. It would be a matter of time before Armenia capitulates to Azerbaijani demands, the questions is what do they get in return. What Armenia needs is not guarantees for Karabakh residents, a hallow gesture Yerevan have no way of enforcing, she needs to find a new equilibrium where her own security can be guaranteed in the absence of a benefactor like Russia.

F0X0 on May 22nd, 2023 at 21:04 UTC »

Also, Nikol Pashinyan mentioned possible withdrawal from CSTO.

Russia immediately reacting with "We will continue the dialogue with our Armenian friends, we will talk with them on our further joint participation in the activities of the CSTO,” Dmitry Peskov

Apparently, Armenia is looking for weapons acquisitions from other countries?

Super curious if anyone can translate this: source

Falls_stuff on May 22nd, 2023 at 18:34 UTC »

SS: Armenia is ready to recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave as part of Azerbaijan if Baku guarantees the security of its ethnic Armenian population, the Russian state news agency TASS and the Russian news outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti quoted Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as saying on Monday. Nagorno-Karabakh has been a source of conflict between the two Caucasus neighbors since the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and between ethnic Armenians and Turkic Azeris for well over a century. In 2020, Azerbaijan seized control of areas that had been controlled by ethnic Armenians in and around the mountain enclave, and since then it has periodically closed the only access road linking Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, on which the enclave relies for financial and military support.