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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has declared that his country's policy of relying solely on Russia to guarantee its security was a "strategic mistake".
In an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Nikol Pashinyan accused Russia of failing to ensure Armenia's security in the face of what he called aggression by neighboring Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Pashinyan suggested that Moscow, which has a defense pact with Armenia and a military base there, did not consider his country sufficiently pro-Russian and said he believed Russia was in the process of withdrawing from the wider South Caucasus region.
" Armenia's security architecture was 99.999% tied to Russia, including when it came to arms and ammunition procurement. But today we see that Russia itself needs arms, weapons and ammunition (for the war in Ukraine) and in this situation it is understandable that even if it wants to, the Russian Federation cannot meet the security needs of Armenia. This example should show us that depending on only one partner in security matters is a strategic mistake ," Pashinyan told La Repubblica.
His words underscore the discontent inside Armenia over what many there see as Russia's failure to protect their interests.
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