Moscow considers Pashinyan’s speech in the European Parliament on 17 October absolutely provocative, ТАSS reports, referring to its high-ranking source.
“We regard the speech of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the European Parliament on 17 October as absolutely irresponsible and provocative, especially with regard to Russia and Russian-Armenian relations,” the source said.
“We see how they are trying to turn Armenia into Ukraine No. 3, if we count Moldova is Ukraine No. 2, and Pashinyan is taking leaps and bounds along the path of Vladimir Zelensky.”
On Tuesday, during a speech in the European Parliament, Pashinyan said that Armenia’s security allies, against the backdrop of the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh, allegedly publicly called for a change of power in the country. However, he did not specify from which “allies” such calls were made.
Let’s remind that yesterday in the European Parliament, the Prime Minister of Armenia announced that democracy in Armenia has continued and continues to receive strong blows, which operate with an almost exactly repeated formula: external aggression, then the inaction of Armenia’s allies in the field of security, then attempts to use the war or humanitarian situation or the external security threat to subvert Armenia’s democracy and sovereignty, which is expressed by inciting internal instability with hybrid technologies directed by external forces.
We have had such situations several times since 2020, the largest of which was Azerbaijan’s large-scale attack on Armenia on September 13, 2022, which led to the occupation of Armenia’s sovereign territories.
The most recent and most tragic incidents of this kind took place very recently, when Azerbaijan, fulfilling its long-standing policy of ethnic cleansing, carried out a large-scale attack on Nagorno Karabakh. At the time when hundreds of thousands of Armenians fled from Nagorno Karabakh to the Republic of Armenia, our allies in the security sector not only did not help us, but also made public calls for a change of power in Armenia, to overthrow the democratic government.
