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    Emil Lazarian
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Armenia would have gotten more stable situation with deployment of CSTO monitoring mission, says Russian FM

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 13:40, 17 May 2023

YEREVAN, MAY 17, ARMENPRESS. If Armenia had signed the document on deploying a CSTO monitoring mission it would have gotten a more stable situation, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The document, which was prepared ahead of the CSTO Yerevan summit in 2022 upon Armenia’s request, had been “entirely agreed upon on the foreign ministerial level”, Lavrov said in a televised interview.

“And then, at the last moment, during the summit, our Armenian friends asked to postpone its adoption. It’s still on paper up to this day, and it’s not implemented. Had Yerevan approved it, which was already agreed upon, and stood ready to sign it for implementation, I am sure that Armenia would have benefited and gotten a more stable situation,” Lavrov said.

Armenia did not sign the document because it did not contain an assessment to the Azerbaijani attack on Armenia in September 2022 and called for amending it.

On 20 April, 2023, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan Armenia was ready for the CSTO deployment.

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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