MP: Russia's supply of weapons to Azerbaijan breaks the balance in the region

Russia's supply of weapons to Azerbaijan is not business. It is a violation of the balance of forces in the region, which hampers peaceful resolution of the Karabakh conflict, opposition Armenian lawmaker Khachatur Kokobelyan said in Parliament on April 6, stressing that Azerbaijan launched the offensive on April 2 with Russian military hardware.    

He called on the Armenian authorities and political forces to take all measures to demand that Russia - the strategic ally of Armenia, a member of the CSTO and the EEU, and a co-chair country of the OSCE Minsk Group - should be committed to the first provision of the Collective Security Treaty and to the third provision of the Armenian-Russian treaty on friendship, cooperation and mutual support.       

For his part, Hrant Bagratyan, ex-prime minister of Armenia, lawmaker from the opposition Armenian National Congress, said that Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan should refuse to attend the forthcoming meeting of the EEU Prime Ministers in Moscow. Head of the Eurasian Economic Commission Board Tigran Sargsyan should not do it either, he said.    

"In these hours of need, that meeting should take place in Yerevan. They should come here to support us," he stressed.