Russia is actively discussing the absence of Armenian representatives at the meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Minsk on November 23.
Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) drew attention to this fact in their summary.
And this despite the fact that Kremlin Speaker Dmitry Peskov, expressing regret over the absence of representatives of this country in Minsk, assured that Armenia remains an “ally and strategic partner” of Russia.
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ISW recalls that the Kremlin has previously tried to dispel concerns about the deterioration of Russian-Armenian relations.
Thus, the pro-Kremlin publication TASS quoted the words of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Mnatsakan Safaryan, who assured that Armenia is not considering the possibility of leaving the CSTO or asking the Russian Federation to withdraw its forces from the Russian 102 military base in Gyumri.
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The “coolness” in relations between Armenia and Russia became noticeable in the fall of 2023.
At first, Armenian troops refrained from participating in the CSTO Indestructible Brotherhood 2023 exercises in early October.
And already on October 13, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan missed the CSTO summit in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan).
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By the way, at the end of September, against the backdrop of the return of Nagorno-Karabakh to the control of Azerbaijan, Nikol Pashinyan called the external security structures that Yerevan relied on ineffective.
And in early autumn, the Prime Minister of Armenia recognized Yerevan’s dependence on Russia in the security sphere as a strategic mistake.
All these statements began after the Armenian government sent the Rome Statute to parliament for ratification.
Although Nikol Pashinyan stated that the ratification of the Rome Charter was connected “with tension due to the situation in the territory bordering Azerbaijan” and simply coincided in time “with the context of relations between Russia and the ISS.”
Already on October 3, the Armenian parliament ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and on October 13, Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturian signed the corresponding ratification law.
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