Caretaker Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan rules out the opportunity that Russia and CSTO may not fulfil their contractual obligations, ARMENPRESS reports Pashinyan said during parliament-Cabinet Q&A session.
MP Tigran Urikhanyan asked if Pashinyan has the concern that if Armenia carries out punitive actions against the Azerbaijanis that have crossed the border of Armenia, Russia and the CSTO forces may not provide necessary support to Armenia, violating the obligations.
‘’You mean that the CSTO and Russia may not carry out their contractual obligations? How is that possible? That means that that organization or any country declares about its self-dissolution, since it does not implement its obligations.
Russia’s position was, is and remains that the border of the Republic of Armenia is a red line for the Russian Federation. And yes, it’s a sad fact that Azerbaijan has crossed that red line. And I consider it impossible that Russia does not carry out contractual obligations. The whole point of those contractual obligations is that an attack on Armenia is an attack on Russia. It’s written on the paper. This means that if anyone can attack Armenia staying unpunished, then anyone can attack Russia with staying unpunished”, Pashinyan said.
Armenia continues consultations in the sidelines of the CSTO, with Russia with which Armenia has bilateral security partnership. Armenia holds consultations also with neighboring Iran.
He added that the post-war security system is now experiencing a very serious test and that test must be successfully overcome. ”And we are confident that the CSTO and the Armenian-Russian security cooperation will be successfully overcome”, Pashinyan said.
Pashinyan does not see the need to impose martial law at the moment, it can be introduced in case of a sharp aggravation of the situation.
