ArmInfo.Armenia has repeatedly expressed its position regarding the sale of arms to Russia to Azerbaijan, including during bilateral meetings with Russian counterparts. Vice-Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov said this at a press conference in Yerevan on July 12, referring to reports of Russia's new arms supplies to Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is not a state that can sell arms, it is necessary to sell weapons to those countries that intend to use it for defense purposes," Sharmazanov said. At the same time, he added that his position on this issue has not changed.
At the same time, he expressed the conviction that this fact should not obstruct the development of the Armenian-Russian strategic relations. He called not to consider the Armenian-Russian relations in the prism of Russian-Azerbaijani. "We need to continue to develop our allied relations with Russia, based on our interests," the vice speaker of the Armenian parliament concluded.
It should be noted that on July 10 it became known that Russia was supplying the next batch of weapons to Azerbaijan. Shells, missiles and other military equipment were delivered to the Baku port in large numbers for accurate and extensive destruction of military equipment, engineering structures, manpower and other enemy facilities with appropriate missile and artillery systems. According to reports, among the delivered weapons is a heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A . In the second decade of June, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reported that, in accordance with the intergovernmental agreement and within the framework of successfully developing military-technical cooperation between Azerbaijan and Russia, the planned delivery of modern weapons was carried out, which will strengthen the combat and maneuver capabilities of the advanced units of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan to defeat armored vehicles , Engineering and fortification structures, low-speed air targets, manpower and other enemy objects, including and a self-propelled anti-tank missile system