Political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian toned down their rhetoric on Wednesday after Moscow angrily denied trying to force Armenia to join the “union state” of Russia and Belarus and open a corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave.
The Armenian parliament on Wednesday rejected a draft resolution condemning the Azerbaijani blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, allegedly objecting to its reference to the Karabakh Armenians’ right to self-determination.
Sparking a further backlash in Armenia, a senior Russian lawmaker has claimed this week that the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan “does not fall within the competence of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).”