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Opposition bloc OK with CSTO mission, slams sending Armenians to Almaty

Jan 8 2022
January 8, 2022 – 16:04 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The opposition Armenia bloc believes Yerevan should not have prevented the deployment of the CSTO contingent to Kazakhstan, but the Armenian forces should not have been sent to Almaty, lawmaker from the bloc Gegham Nazaryan said in a statement on Facebook Friday, January 7.

"Kazakhstan adhered to a clear pro-Azerbaijani position during the 44-day war [in Nagorno-Karabakh in fall 2020]. Kazakhstan congratulated Azerbaijan on November 9," Nazaryan said.

Nazaryan added that in a situation “when haven't healed the wounds of the war, haven't overcome the consequences", Armenia should not be sending a single serviceman abroad, especially to Kazakhstan, "where only intra-clan – not inter-clan but intra-clan – issues are being resolved."

Almost immediately after Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev asked for help, the CSTO decided to deploy a peacekeeping contingent in Kazakhstan, with Armenia sending 100 troops to Kazakhstan as part of the contingent.

Throughout the mission, the Armenian peacekeeping unit will only protect buildings and infrastructures of strategic importance, the Defense Ministry said.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS