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“If Azerbaijan and Turkey invade Armenia, launch a military invasion or launch missiles and airstrikes, Russia will be forced to respond. Under the collective security agreement, Russia is committed to protecting Armenia,” said A. Arbatov, director of the Center. of International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Earlier, in an interview with the German daily Bild, the head of the Armenian government, Nikolai Pasinian, claimed that the Russian armed forces could be used to ensure the security of Armenia under certain circumstances. The Prime Minister noted that Russia has a military base in Armenia and the two countries have a common air defense system.
Arbatov said that Russia has commitments to Armenia, but they do not include Nagorno-Karabakh, where clashes are taking place between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.
“Russia has no commitments in Nagorno-Karabakh. Karabakh is not formally part of Armenia. As I understand it, Azerbaijan and Turkey have no plans to attack Armenia. They set themselves the task of occupying Karabakh and returning it to Azerbaijan,” the scientist said.
According to A. Arbatov, Armenia has declared that it is necessary to introduce peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, and now Azerbaijan and Turkey must make the decision.
“The peacekeeping forces that Russia would certainly deploy could be deployed with the consent of both parties to the conflict. If one of the parties to the conflict disagrees, it is no longer a peacekeeping operation, but a Forced peacekeeping operation similar to the one carried out by Russia in South Ossetia in 2008. This would already be a conflict between Russia and Azerbaijan, and Russia will do everything possible to prevent it, ”said the academic.
“The possibility of a peacekeeping operation, which I think is necessary, depends on a ceasefire.” Russia, the United States and France must do everything possible to persuade Azerbaijan and Turkey to stop their action. military, accept a ceasefire and resume negotiations, “Arbatov said.
“Azerbaijan has shown that it can conduct offensive operations. It is not a blitzkrieg, it is not a very successful operation, but it is still a large-scale operation. In this sense, Azerbaijan could start negotiations by taking stronger positions than before,” he said. expert.
Since September 27, fierce fighting has been taking place in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
From Russia to Yerevan: a special plane
A Russian special-purpose plane landed at the Armenian capital’s airport, Prime Minister Mane Gevorgian said on Monday.
“The special-purpose aircraft flew from Russia to Armenia,” he said, but did not provide further details.
Earlier on Monday, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, said he had no information on whether a Rossiya plane had landed in Yerevan today.
“I don’t have that information,” he told reporters.
A Kremlin spokesman said he was asked to indicate who was on the plane, which, according to social media based on flight monitoring portal Flightradar24, belongs to the Rossiya aviation team and landed in Yerevan on Monday.
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