Armenian Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pasjinian on Friday asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for military support. Pasjinian accused neighbor and archenemy Azerbaijan of it on Thursday that it does not adhere to the recently concluded peace agreement and entered southern Armenia with troops.
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The Armenian prime minister made his request for help to Putin public in the Armenian parliament. There, Pasjinian also said that French President Emmanuel Macron is considering putting the tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the agenda of the UN Security Council. The United States has already urged Azerbaijan to withdraw its troops from Armenian territory.
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At the end of last year, the decades-old conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region flared up again. Since the 1990s, the area, which is part of Azerbaijan, has been ruled by the local ethnic Armenian population, with support from Armenia. Azerbaijan managed to regain control of much of the disputed mountain region in the most recent war.
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During the six-week conflict, which cost some 6,000 lives, Pasjinian repeatedly turned to Russia for help, albeit to no avail. Russia ultimately played an important role in mediating the peace between the two former Soviet republics in the Caucasus.
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The Armenian defeat meant that Pasjinian had to resign as prime minister. In his own country, he is accused of not having handled the war with the neighboring country properly.
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