Armenian Prime Minister asked Russian President for military assistance in light of the situation on Armenia’s borders with Azerbaijan
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has requested Russian President Vladimir Putin for military assistance to Armenia due to tension in the Syunik region on the border with Azerbaijan, according to the Acting Prime Minister.
In a speech delivered on Friday before the Armenian Parliament, Pashinyan accused the Azerbaijani forces of entering the territory of his country, pointing out that an agreement was reached at the highest level on the withdrawal of the Azerbaijani military from the Syunik region today.
Pachinayin said that Baku only partially implemented the agreement, adding that “there are lands from which the Azerbaijanis did not leave”.
He continued, “Due to the failure to fully implement the agreement, I addressed today to the Russian president a request to provide assistance to Armenia, including military assistance”.
On May 12, the Armenian government announced that Azerbaijani forces had entered the Sonic region, where they attempted to carry out “border demarcation” actions.
The Syunik region in southern Armenia is confined between Azerbaijan in the west and the Nakhchivan region of Azerbaijan in the east, and Iran in the south.
Russia is a close ally of Armenia, a former Soviet republic with a population of less than 3 million.
The Russian army has a military base in southwestern Armenia.
On September 27, 2020, large-scale combat operations between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces resumed in the Karabakh region in a conflict that has continued since the late 1980s.
On November 9, the Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin, the Azerbaijani Ilham Aliyev, and the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, issued a joint statement stipulating the declaration of a ceasefire in the disputed Karabakh region between the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides, effective November 10.
Under this agreement, Azerbaijan, which is allied with Turkey, regained more than two-thirds of the lands it lost during the 1992-1994 war with the Armenian side.
