War with Azerbaijan, Armenia admits it doesn’t need help …

YEREVAN – Fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenian ethnic forces entering its fourth day on Wednesday (30/09/2020) in the biggest eruption of their decades-long conflict since a 1994 ceasefire.

Azerbaijan and ethnic enclaves Armenia of Nagorno-Karabakh said there were attacks from both sides in several directions along the lines of contact separating them.

The fighting has spread far beyond the enclave’s borders, threatening to turn into an all-out war between the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia.(Also read: Armenian-Azerbaijan War Widespread, Nearly 100 People Killed in Nagorno-Karabakh)

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said at this point he was not considering asking for help under a post-Soviet security agreement but did not rule out doing so.

“Armenia will ensure its safety, with the participation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) or without it,” Russian news agency quoted Pashinyan as saying. Ruters.

He said he and Putin had not yet discussed possible Russian military intervention in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Russia has used the CSTO, along with the Eurasian Economic Union, another regional bloc focused on trade, to project influence in most of the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a separate region within Azerbaijan but is run by ethnic Armenians and is supported by Armenians. It seceded from Azerbaijan in the war of the 1990s but was not recognized by any country as an independent republic.

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