Stepan Safaryan: We must make Russia observe our position in all matters

ArmInfo. "Russia and Armenia's interests do not match in many matters, despite the fact that we are a strategic partner of Moscow. One of the points of conflict of interest is the supply of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan. In this situation, our interests are being sacrificed, but we can change this situation.

" This January 31 at a press conference said the founder of the Armenian Institute of International Relations and Security, political scientist Stepan Safaryan. Safaryan noted that as long as we agree with everything in Moscow's policy, our interests will not be taken into account, and we will not have parity-based relations. "Russia is currently double-dealing , supplying arms to Armenia and Azerbaijan, thus fully controlling the situation and keeping both parties in line." Armenia's interests in this situation are not taken into account.We must make sure that our position is heard by Moscow and was taken into account in any case, "the political scientist noted. According to the expert, Armenia should constantly voice its position on the fact that it considers Moscow's policy as a strategic partner to be inappropriate for arming Azerbaijan. "We must strengthen its position and make it clear. We need to make our voice in the decisions of Russian meaningful and significant. Otherwise, we will always be on the back cast, rather than equal partners and our interests will always be sacrificed to the interests of Russia.

Moscow will start to take into account our interests only when it realizes the danger of losing Armenia as a partner, "the expert said. At the same time, Safaryan expressed the opinion that the supply of the current party of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan does not conceal danger and will not affect the balance of forces in the region, since at the moment the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan is not beneficial to Russia, Europe or the United States. "This is just an economic and political deal beneficial for Russia," the expert concluded. It should be noted that last week it was informed about the delivery of a new shipment of weapons from Russia b to Azerbaijan. As reported by the press service of the Defense Ministry, the delivery of modern Russian-made military equipment to Azerbaijan continues in accordance with the plan and after a comprehensive reception in the shortest possible time will be transferred to the disposal of military units stationed on the front line.