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While international attention has focused on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, with fears of a conflict between Iran and Israel, a crisis of great geopolitical significance is unfolding in the Caucasus. Armenia, a former Soviet republic independent since 1991, is breaking away from Russia and seeking to be a Western ally in Putin’s backyard.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says his country needs support to avoid war with heavily armed neighbor Azerbaijan – and is clear about the importance of close ties with the EU and other Western nations, according to the Independent.
After a brief and brief conflict with Azerbaijan, a neighboring adversary, Armenia is in the process of breaking with its historic ties with Russia to become a Western ally in Vladimir Putin’s backyard.
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Players involved in the bloody fighting in Ukraine and the Middle East are also present in this region. Russia – Armenia’s supposed ally – failed to protect the country from the Azeri invasion and appears to have switched sides. Israel, which has sent huge amounts of weapons to help Azerbaijan – and Shiite Iran, which has said it will not allow its border with Armenia to fall under the control of hostile Azerbaijan and the “Zionist entity” it supports.
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Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, knows the pitfalls he faces in managing the pivot to the West while avoiding another war with Azerbaijan, whose leader, Ilham Aliyev, has continued to threaten more offensives.
Pashinyan’s attempts to strike a balance have led to accusations of appeasement at home, with claims that he is making too many concessions to Aliyev with little in return. There are protests over his government’s decision last week to hand over four villages to Azerbaijan.
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Speaking in the capital, Yerevan, to a small group of British journalists, Pashinyan acknowledged that “the Russian Federation is a serious and significant player in the South Caucasus region.” But he says there have been moves by Armenia to forge strong ties with Western states and the European Union, especially since protests led to political reforms six years ago.
In this regard, Pashinyan says: “I have never been far from the West. Our achievements in the field of democracy have created an objective reality in which our relationship can develop dynamically, but for a moment… I said that democracy for us is not a policy adopted by circumstances, it is a strategy we have adopted. “
The turmoil of recent years has led to the formation of new alliances, says Pashinyan: “Indeed, we are diversifying foreign relations, but we are not the only ones doing it. Practically throughout the world, you would not find any actor that does not diversify its external relations. Armenia could not overlook this new trend.
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“Regarding the further approach to the European Union. I said in my speech before the European Parliament that the Republic of Armenia is ready to be as close as possible to the European Union. At the moment, we seem to be moving in that direction because, very importantly, this is a public process. Transparency is of the utmost importance to us.”
Armenia’s westward move has been coupled with a growing antipathy and distrust of Russia, once seen as a staunch ally – a fellow Christian state in a predominantly Muslim Caucasus.
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